Solaris

It's a usability problem that it behaves differently the first time you connect to a host, particularly if you hop between client machines all the time and might or might not have connected from that particular client before. From that point of view it would be a benefit if it would just silently add new hosts without asking. (I don't understand why it has to ask, anyway.) I don't particularly believe in Expect but anything which gets rid of that obnoxious question would be an improvement.

Works for me.

Did you remove the comment-out (#) from the line?

Code:

$ cat /etc/ssh/ssh_config
   ...
   #   CheckHostIP yes
   #   StrictHostKeyChecking ask
   StrictHostKeyChecking no
   #   EscapeChar ~
   # 
   
$ ssh testserver
Warning: Permanently added 'testserver' (DSA) to the list of known hosts.
user1@testserver's password:

System Shock, you are right, it actually works, I forgot to remove the #, stupid me

..well, some time ago I wasted half a thread arguing with Vino about a way of removing the ^M that windows text editors append at the end of lines from a text file, and instead of checking the results by vi'ing a test file, I kept on cat'ing it... so I feel you