On 29 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> The scenario is simple. I have a setup with port forwarding, where
>> my ssh client thinks am connecting to a different host each time. (
>> ip remains same, port is different on ssh commandline ) and its a
>> hassle to delete the "cached" line from the known_hosts everytime.
>
> man ssh_config , look at the UserKnownHostsFile directive.  Set it 
> to /dev/null in the config file or on the ssh command line.

madduck had a useful post about this recently [1]. CheckHostIP and
StrictHostkeyChecking are essential in guaranteeing a secure
connection and global disabling of them will just give you a false
sense of security.

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://blog.madduck.net/geek/2007.03.23_managing-known-hosts

-- 
Alok

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