Thanks for the advice. What happens is gcp appends a new entry to my
known_hosts file (which already has the hostname and key I use) with a very
strange looking one, and then fails to connect after doing it once
successfully. I am happy to get it right, but at this point, I just don't
understand the rewrite and subsequent behavior.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:45 AM vince <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 1:57:25 AM UTC-7, Tom Mitchell wrote:
>>
>> Thanks @gary for the followup. I turned off stricthostkeychecking in the
>> .ssh/config file which resolved it. I don't know exactly this cloud server
>> does this, but it works and I am not going to dig too deep on it.
>>
>>
>>
> That's usually a really bad idea.  Strict host checking tries to make sure
> that you're not connecting to an imposter computer using the same ip
> address as the one you're trying to connect to.   What rsync is doing is
> saying "hey - I don't know who that remote system is, is this ok?" and
> asking for verification.   Very normal ssh behavior.
>
> If you're building a docker container to run weewx, you could have your
> container build proces create its ~/.ssh/known_hosts file with the host key
> for the system you typically connect to, if you have stable host keys on
> the system you're rsync'ing to (which is usually the case).  That's a far
> more secure way of doing things.
>
>
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