I’ve been trying to set up a rsync job to my SourceForge account so that I can keep a few files up to date. I created a new ssh key and uploaded it, but I still couldn’t ssh interactively to the server.

I was banging my head against a brick wall until I found this: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1806 .

Half way down the page it says you can connect using:

ssh -o stricthostkeychecking=ask ssh-server.example.com

I tried that, but with no luck. So I tried:

ssh -o stricthostkeychecking=no ssh-server.example.com

and it worked!

Now the server key is stored on my local system and I start working on the rsync job.