From 107ced7ec58bcdb0b6c019635780d282a2006f36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael DeHaan Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 18:56:46 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Mention envrionment variable configuration. --- docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst b/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst index 2e6b03c10b..3991128e76 100644 --- a/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst +++ b/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst @@ -350,7 +350,11 @@ If you wish to disable this behavior and understand the implications, you can do [default] host_key_checking = False -Usage of host key checking in paramiko mode is reasonably slow, therefore switching to 'ssh' is also recommended when using this +Alternatively this can be set by an environment variable: + + $ export ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False + +Also note that host key checking in paramiko mode is reasonably slow, therefore switching to 'ssh' is also recommended when using this feature. .. seealso::