Flag to turn off host-key check

[Michael Loftis]

Sorry I hit send before I finished composing....

Using that option in combination with some form of DDNS update script and 
VerifyHostKeyDNS would get you what you want, with current software.  It is 
a workaround, yes.

--On June 20, 2008 1:14:04 PM -0600 Michael Loftis <mloftis at wgops.com> 
wrote:

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> --On June 20, 2008 11:04:18 AM -0700 Tobias Karlsson
> <jtkarlsson1973 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Let me start by saying that I think OpenSSH is a great tool and thanks to
>> everyone contributing to it's existence.
>>
>> However, I have a request:
>>
>> I'd like to have a flag that ignores the check of the host key. I'm fully
>> aware of that this opens up for man-in-the-middle attacks and that there
>> is a risk of lazy users mis-using this feature, but it would be very
>> useful for us using SSH in a lab environment where the host key of the
>> equipment frequently changes.
>
> StrictHostKeyChecking [yes|no|ask] defaults to ask.
>
> ssh -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking no'
> or in ~/.ssh/config/.
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