On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Mihai Rusu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday 15 January 2010 04:34:36 Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Martin Bligh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > John, Steve - this looks generally correct to me. If this is going to
>> > break you guys,
>> > I guess we can make it configurable (but default on), but don't think
>> > it'll cause
>> > problems?
>>
>> -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null seems very
>> reasonable flags to use since we are dealing with test machines, and
>> those get reinstalled frequently. Every time I have to reinstall a
>> client machine, I have to cleam entries on known_hosts (and I confess
>> I am still doing it manually, wich is a PITA).
>
> An alternative is to cleanup "known_hosts" when you are reinstalling. We have
> site specific code to reinstall machines (basically implementing
> Host.machine_install) that does this.
>

I believe the main reason we have that code was because at that time
we wanted to avoid pushing more options on other people, and not
because it was really the right way to do things.

-- John

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