How do I skip the "known_host" question the first time I connect to a machine via SSH with public/private keys? [duplicate]

All the other current answers are missing the UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null

If you just want to do it once you can use:

ssh -o StrictHostKeychecking=no hostname

If you want to do it repeatedly you should add something like the following to your ~/.ssh/config

Host 192.168.0.*
    StrictHostKeyChecking no
    UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null

To configure this on OpenSSH for Windows simply replace /dev/null with NUL.

Good explanation from: http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-disable-ssh-host-key-checking.html

Turn StrictHostKeyChecking off via ssh_config or command line options.

You can get the public key, add it to known_hosts file and then rehash it:

ssh-keyscan -t rsa hostname >> .ssh/known_hosts
ssh-keygen -H
rm .ssh/known_hosts.old

$ ssh -o StrictHostKeychecking=no hostname

This will cause the check to be skipped and the remote host's key to automatically be added on first login. (There's also the option CheckHostIP, but it doesn't seem to actually disable the check for whether a key exists at all).