Hello Nico, I recently run into the same issue. Until I figured dput-ng uses paramiko underneath, which in turn reads the usual /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts and ~/.ssh/known_hosts files.
Once you add the host key to the list of known hosts, either system wide or for the user trying to connect, dput-ng can well upload without the quoted message. To retrieve the ssh key use: ssh-keyscan -t rsa -H ${HOST} Hope this helps. Kind Regards Markus Wanner
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