Re: SSH - Key Authentication

[hippo]

Can you help me on how to deal with the above prompt for the first time when we attempt to connect to the device?

The easy solution is to set strict_host_key_checking => 0 in the Net::SSH::Any constructor. This is of course very insecure but since your previous posts on the subject suggest that security is a very low priority for you then this may be sufficient.

[vasanth.easyrider]

i already tried strict_host_key_checking => 0 in the past, for few devices SSH connection was not happening. i was getting error message that "channel not identified". This was because of using the option strict_host_key_checking => 0. Hence i decided not to use it

[salva]

Those are unrelated things. You were probably doing something else wrong.