diff --git a/apps/wolfsshd/test/sshd_term_close_test.sh b/apps/wolfsshd/test/sshd_term_close_test.sh
index d0e464f5..2015c301 100755
--- a/apps/wolfsshd/test/sshd_term_close_test.sh
+++ b/apps/wolfsshd/test/sshd_term_close_test.sh
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/openssl-1.1.1/lib
 # get the current wolfsshd pid count to compare with
 WOLFSSHD_PID_COUNT=$(pgrep wolfsshd | wc -l)
 
-COMMAND="$TEST_CLIENT -p $2 -i $PRIVATE_KEY $3@$1 \"echo test\""
+COMMAND="$TEST_CLIENT -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p $2 -i $PRIVATE_KEY $3@$1 \"echo test\""
 echo "$COMMAND"
 set -e
 $COMMAND
 set +e
 
-COMMAND="timeout 3 $TEST_CLIENT -p $2 -i $PRIVATE_KEY $3@$1 \"sleep 10\""
+COMMAND="timeout 3 $TEST_CLIENT -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p $2 -i $PRIVATE_KEY $3@$1 \"sleep 10\""
 echo "$COMMAND &"
 $COMMAND &
 sleep 1