On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 01:29:34PM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 11/12/2013 07:47 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > > 2) if you know that some machines change fingerprint and you *trust it* you > > can do: > > > > ~/.ssh/config: > > Host 192.168.1.1 > > UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null > > > It always bugged me that the choice was to either disable or manually edit an > obscure file, so I was happy to find that you can delete stale entries from > commandline: > > ssh-keygen -R hostname I work on some lab systems that get kickstarted frequently and thus change ssh keys quite often, so I wrote the script below to update my known_hosts file with the new key. Note that I use the format "hostname,ip-address" so that I don't get two entries in my known_hosts file (which causes its own set of problems if the system gets a new IP address due to DHCP changes). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #!/bin/sh KNOWN_HOSTS=~/.ssh/known_hosts NEW_HOST=$1 IP_ADDR=$(host $NEW_HOST | awk '/has address/{print $NF}') if ! grep -q $NEW_HOST $KNOWN_HOSTS ; then echo "Could not find $NEW_HOST in $KNOWN_HOSTS" exit fi ssh-keygen -R $NEW_HOST [ -n "$IP_ADDR" ] && NEW_HOST="$NEW_HOST,$IP_ADDR" ssh-keyscan $NEW_HOST >> $KNOWN_HOSTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeff -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct