----- "Filipe Brandenburger" <filbranden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:57, Tim Nelson<tnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > I connect to a very large number of new machines with a handful of
> my CentOS boxen. Whenever I connect to a new host, I *REALLY* would
> like to *NOT* see the error message such as this:
> > The authenticity of host 'w.x.y.z (w.x.y.z)' can't be established.
> > RSA key fingerprint is
> 62:7a:6c:e5:03:f5:47:be:23:a5:c5:e5:c3:60:9b:8d.
> > Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> > Also, some of these systems are being setup with an automated login
> system via SSH keys which means I have to manually login to each of
> the boxes before the automated scripting will work just to clear the
> 'authenticity' error.
> > Is there a way to disable this error/authenticity check globally for
> a system? I understand it may not be the best practice in terms of
> security, but for an internal trusted host, I have no reservations
> making this change.
>
> Yes,
>
> You can do it for one session only (which is convenient for a script)
> like this:
>
> $ ssh -q -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no
> ...
>
> If you want to do that permanent, you can add the two last options to
> /etc/ssh/ssh_config, like this:
>
> UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
> StrictHostKeyChecking no
>
> But I don't think you can get the same as the "-q" does, which
> suppresses the "Adding key to file..." text on the first login.
>
> In any case, I don't think you should do it globally, but do it using
> the long command line on your script only.
>
> I also create a bash alias "qssh" which calls ssh with those options,
> which is handy when I'm trying to connect to a machine that I know
> will get reinstalled many times (and thus have its private key
> changed) and I really don't want to store it in my
> ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
>
> HTH,
> Filipe
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Thank you everyone for the helpful suggestions. I'm entirely unsure why I didn't come across these options during my 'man ssh' and obligatory Googling... Maybe it was because there were no pointing fingers or large blinking arrows to point the way. :-)
--Tim
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