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Support project-local known hosts file.

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
devops

Research direction

No implementation files or tests are named in the issue. Start by reviewing SSHKit's deployment configuration and the documentation describing multiple known hosts files, then determine how a project-local file should be selected and used; done means the behavior is specified and covered by tests.

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Description

I didn't know (until reading the docs) that SSH supports multiple known hosts files, how cool would it be if we could check in to source control (with all the integrity benefits that come with it) the list of known hosts for a given project, and refer to that list when deploying/working with sshkit?

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