Bug#219905: ssh: Should have a command line flag to disable host key checking

[Peter Eckersley <pde@cs.mu.oz.au>]

Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.6.1p2-9
Severity: wishlist

This is a bug motivated by the same problem as #59129.  In some cases,
HostKeyAlias, or ports in the known hosts file, are the correct solution
for forwarded ports.  This is particularly the case when port forwarding
is a stable arrangement for some system.

But when I'm doing ad-hoc port forwarding, I usually use localhost:2222, but
this isn't for any single consistent destination.  So it would be very
convenient to be able to just add a flag to the ssh command line which makes
ssh trust me.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux luminance.reworld.org 2.4.20 #1 Fri Mar 28 19:19:27 EST 2003 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages ssh depends on:
ii  adduser        3.47           Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf        1.2.27         Debian configuration management system
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-9    GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libpam0g       0.76-7         Pluggable Authentication Modules library
ii  libpam-modules 0.72-35        Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM
ii  libssl0.9.7    0.9.7a-1       SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0       7.6-9          Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
ii  zlib1g         1.1.4-1        compression library - runtime