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[Lorin Hochstein <lorin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 22, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Soren Hansen wrote:

> 2012/5/21 Lorin Hochstein <lorin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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.
> 

Wow, I never knew about that package. Are all of those utils compatible with OpenStack? Are they documented everywhere? Now that we're adding distribution-specific content to the docs, these are probably worth a mention in the Ubuntu OpenStack install guide.

Take care,

Lorin
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Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com