Feature Request: Token support on Include config directive

[Darren Tucker]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 07:57, Ian Haken <ihaken at netflix.com> wrote:
> I've got a feature request which is (hopefully?) straightforward, which is
> that we'd like to be able to use tokens (%n specifically for the original
> remote hostname) as a token on the Include directive.

Unfortunately it's not straightforward.

Include directives are read and processed as the config file is parsed
(readconf.c, look for "case oInclude").  Percent-token expansion
happens after the config is fully parsed, immediately before it's used
(ssh.c, look for the percent_dollar_expand calls).  It would probably
be possible to perform some kind of expansion when Include is parsed,
but it would have different semantics compared to all of the other
expansions, eg

    UserKnownHostsFile %r/bar
    User foo

does expand UserKnownHostsFile, to foo/bar but

    Include %r/bar
    User foo

would not.

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