On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 12:20 PM Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 05, 2026 at 09:28:57PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > StrictHostKeyChecking no > > UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null > > > > Like quite a few people nowadays I find it more of a nusiance than a > > help. > > lolwat > > In a thread where you tell us you've been confused about which host you > are trying to log in to, and if you had been trying a password you would > have been typing it into someone else's server (!), you disable host key > checking because "like quite a few people nowadays I find it more of a > nuisance" > > Please do spread the message to all these other wrong people you know!
++. I almost looked up the reference for the precursor to StrictHostKeyChecking, but decided against it. But since you took the time I should, too. Here it is: "Perspectives: Improving SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-Path Probing”, Dan Wendlandt, David Anderson and Adrian Perrig, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ‘08), June 2008, p.321. The paper can be found at <https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/perspectives-usenix2008/>. Jeff
