[PATCH] ssh -Y: always accepts and stores the hostkey

Tim Bird tim.bird at am.sony.com
Thu Oct 18 00:27:36 WST 2007


Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
>  the attached patch add the -Y option which force the acceptance and
> the storage of the hostkey. OpenSSH has a rc option which bypass the
> check. In this patch storage of the unknown or not corresponding
> hostkeys as been implemented. This option is NOT enabled by default
> but it becames available editing options.h.

This is a very welcome feature.  I could have used this
a few times in past projects, where I've been automating
ssh access to embedded boards.  My workaround had been to
revert to telnet.

Thanks!
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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