# Ansible tower stucked on hostkey checking despite accepted manually

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-stucked-on-hostkey-checking-despite-accepted-manually/34660>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [February 20, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-stucked-on-hostkey-checking-despite-accepted-manually/34660 "2021-02-20T18:44:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![sloweriang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@sloweriang](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sloweriang)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-stucked-on-hostkey-checking-despite-accepted-manually/34660/1 "2021-02-20T18:44:41Z")

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my playbook:

- name: get output  
shell: ssh {{ user }}@{{ storage }} some command

Then I run the command below:

su - awx  
ssh user@storage  
Accept the fingerprint manually.  
result: able to ssh passwordless to user@storage without issue.

Then I run on ansible tower, it just stucked on the host key checking.  
The authenticity of host ‘ip’ can’t be established.  
RSA key fingerprint is: xXxX

Kindly assist.