[Feature Request] Allow options in Host block to override global options in ssh

Ashish SHUKLA wahjava.ml at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 17:41:02 EST 2010


Damien Miller writes:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:

>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> For ssh(1) to override global options with the options in "Host" block, the
>> attached diff (w.r.t. the openssh code in FreeBSD 8.1-R) contains the code to
>> do so while parsing ssh configuration file.

> This isn't necessary, just put the global options in a "Host *" section
> at the end of the file.

That works, thanks.
-- 
Ashish SHUKLA

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