# known\_hosts file on host causing ssh problems

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/known-hosts-file-on-host-causing-ssh-problems/19194>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 5, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/known-hosts-file-on-host-causing-ssh-problems/19194 "2015-09-05T18:56:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vincent\_Fulco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/71c47a/32.png) [@Vincent\_Fulco](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vincent_Fulco)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/known-hosts-file-on-host-causing-ssh-problems/19194/1 "2015-09-05T18:56:13Z")

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First weekend getting my feet wet with ansible and a relative noob with ssh, using the 5-minute-bootstrap repo, found on git ([https://github.com/robfeldmann/5-min-bootstrap](https://github.com/robfeldmann/5-min-bootstrap)) which is excellent, to provision a fresh linode VPS (removing root, adding a foo user, adding ssh logins, etc) before installing dokku-alt (manually for now). The script works all the way through to the end so long as I comment out the latest line in known\_hosts file on the host. I have `"host_key_checking = False"`in the /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg on the host. Should I set up a directory specific .cfg file with the same (next step)?

Any help would much appreciated. I would prefer to turn it off.