[ILUG] Passwordless SSH access

Ronan Waide waider at waider.ie
Tue Mar 19 15:19:00 GMT 2002


On March 19, john at antefacto.com said:
> > This time it takes ages to connect [20 seconds or so] but it does so
> > after said time. This I find mildly annoying. 
>  
>  Edit the .ssh/known_hosts file, and take out the reference to that host.
> If your hosts change very regularly, and you don't usually go outside your
> network, you could 'chmod a-w .ssh/known_hosts' so it's not updated when
> you SSH to new hosts. Obviously, this has security implications.
> 

Or you can simply put "CheckHostIP no" in $HOME/.ssh/config

> John

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