"Include" directive in ~/.ssh/config

[Hank Leininger]

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I would like an 'Include' directive or similar for ssh client config
files.

My ~/.ssh/config file is larger than I would like, 147 Host stanzas
currently (and I doubt I set any record there).  I have some
networks/hosts I access via some pretty complex setups (port-fwded SSH
via intermediate hosts, multiple port-fwds for various applications, or
just hosts where my username isn't the default or I use an alternate
Identity file, etc).  And several others, coworkers etc have similar,
overlapping needs.  I would like to group these logically into
'labname.conf', 'clientname.conf', 'localnet.conf', etc files, and my
~/.ssh/config file could be consolidated with a few:

Include localoverrides.conf
Include labname.conf
Include clientname.conf
Include localnet.conf

...or whatever.  Then we can share / track via CVS or whatever these
.conf files, and not have to muck around with maintaining large,
clutter-prone ~/.ssh/config files.

An obvious alternative is to build a consolidated ~/.ssh/config file
from these individual bits using a perl script, Makefile, etc.  Has
anybody else got similar needs, and if so have you already solved them
with either a patch to openssh, or the script approach?

Thanks,

Hank Leininger <hlein at progressive-comp.com>
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