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I have done a little googling and have not come up with a clear answer to this question. I was wondering if someone could help me out with this issue.

Is there a way to auto accept any RSA key inside a bash script with no user interference? I need this script to run without user intervention and it will stop every time it encounters a new ip, i just need it to accept all of them.

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What command is being run in the bash script? You may want to look at twinpipe or expect. bisqwit.iki.fi/source/twinpipe.html linux.die.net/man/1/expect –  Erik Nedwidek May 11 '11 at 19:27

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If all you need is to accept new unknown hosts, try this:

 ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no

If you also need to accept changed host keys, you can trick SSH into using a blank file for storing it's local set of known host keys, then accepting new unknown ones. Note this is a Bad Idea™:

ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no
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Worked great, thanks. –  prolink007 May 11 '11 at 20:39

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