Thank you!!

On Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at 3:32:18 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:24 AM Jack Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > "Set this to “False” if you want to avoid host key checking by the 
> underlying tools Ansible uses to connect to the host" per the link below. 
> Most commonly used for SSH connections.
> >
> > https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html
>
> Host key checking is a big problem in many environments where a
> disting OS image with distinct SSH keys may wind up assigned a
> previously used IP address.
>
> It can be turned for the Ansible server by editing ~/.ssh/config for
> the account running ansible on that host, with:
>
> Host *
> UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
> StrictHostKeyChecking no
> LogLevel ERROR
>
> I've been suggesting this for complex environments since.... the
> 1990's, where the "hosts have stable DNS and stable individual keys"
> has never been reliable. There have been demands in various
> environments to publish or sign host keys, but the bootstrap to get
> those keys under management needs a tool like ansible running *first*,
> or it becomes a nasty bootstrap operation.
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 12/29/21 08:10, davidy wrote:
> >
> > Hi Anyone can explain "false" below. Thank you
> >
> >
> > sudo nano ansible.cfg
> > [defaults]
> > inventory = ./hosts
> > host_key checking = false
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