specific Host not overriding global Host

Ben Lindstrom mouring at eviladmin.org
Sun Mar 21 08:43:37 EST 2010


It is a first match system.. Put all your specialized Host entries BEFORE this one.

- Ben

On Mar 20, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:

> My config file contains
> 
> Host *
> VisualHostKey yes
> Host app
> VisualHostKey no
> 
> however when I ssh into app I still see the VisualHostKey.
> 
> It is my understanding that the more specific host should override the
> global defaults. When I asked on IRC they told me to report the issue
> to this mailing list.
> 
> I know my version of OpenSSH is old, but I checked bugzilla and did
> not see any bug reports about this.
> OpenSSH_5.2p1 FreeBSD-20090522, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
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