[ale] ssh for automated management

[Chris Ricker]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> I'm wondering just how big .ssh/known_hosts will be on your mgmt
> station.  At some point having multiple mgmt stations, or chrooted
> environments, might make good sense.  Parsing a 3GB known_hosts file for
> every SSH connection might present some problems.

It won't be that bad. Even if you assume 1024 bytes per host (which is much
bigger than the individual fingerprints will actually be), that's only 10
megs for known_hosts.

later,
chris