2012/5/21 Lorin Hochstein <lorin at nimbisservices.com>: > Has anybody ever written a script that grabs the host public key from > the instance's console and updates the .ssh/config/known_hosts file > accordingly, instead of throwing away host key checking? That would > be a handy little thing if it was out there. Ubuntu's cloud-utils package has a cloud-run-instances utility that does this. It's not exactly in the do-one-thing-and-do-it-well sort of category, but perhaps it's just what you need. -- Soren Hansen | http://linux2go.dk/ Senior Software Engineer | http://www.cisco.com/ Ubuntu Developer | http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer | http://www.openstack.org/