Dear Monks o' Knowledge,

I'm currently messing with Net::SFTP and stumbled across something I don't quite get. I would value your opinions on this.

Because this server runs Apache as user nobody, I would like to disable the StrictHostKeyChecking (read: write to ~/.ssh/known_hosts) for "nobody" is set up to use "$HOME = /".

So far so good! I thought when I saw this in the PODs:

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perldoc Net::SFTP

USAGE
Net::SFTP->new($host, %args)
%args can contain:

• user
• password
• debug
• ssh_args
  Specifies a reference to a list of named arguments that should be given to the constructor of the Net::SSH::Perl object underlying the Net::SFTP connection.

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perldoc Net::SSH::Perl

BASIC USAGE

Usage of Net::SSH::Perl is very simple.
Net::SSH::Perl->new($host, %params)

new accepts the following named parameters in %params:
[snip]

• options
  Used to specify additional options to the configuration settings; useful for specifying options for which there is no separate constructor argument. This is analogous to the -o command line flag to the ssh program. If used, the value should be a reference to a list of option directives in the format used in the config file.

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Now how would I tell %args in Net::SFTP->new($host, %args) to usethis options => "StrictHostKeyChecking no"?

I've tried things like the following to no avail:

my %args = (user      => $user,
             password  => $pass,
             debug     => 1,
             ssh_args  => (options => "StrictHostKeyChecking no")
            ); 

my $sftp = Net::SFTP->new($host, %args)
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Update: Basically, my question is: what is meant with "a reference to a list of named arguments"?

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