HOWTO: disable SSH host key checking

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Just once:

$ ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no host.example.com

Permanently, add the following to your ssh configuration (usually in ~/.ssh/config):

Host host.example.com  
    StrictHostKeyChecking no  
    UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null

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