[Feature Request] mention hostname on -v

Martin Hecht martin.hecht at hlrs.de
Tue Sep 12 22:45:12 AEST 2023


Hi,

On 12/09/2023 07:43, Philipp Marek wrote:
>>> I've got a usecase right now where I've got to use a few
>>> intermediate ProxyJump hosts, and it would help debugging
>>> via -v tremendously if the debug lines would have a prefix
>>> of the originating host, so that they can be easily associated.
>>>
>>> The FQDN might be too long, though -- perhaps just the PID
>>> with an additional line associating it with the host would be
>>> a better fit?
>>
>> it's a bit of a hack, but you can get PID in debug messages right now
>> using LogVerbose=*, though you'll probably need to set it in ssh_config
>> if you're using ProxyJump as options from the command-line are mostly
>> not passed to the subordinate ssh processes.
> 
> Thanks for the idea -- but that means having write access to sshd_config
> and (potentially) disturbing all other users on the machines.

Note that Damien wrote ssh_config[1], not sshd_config.
You can have a ~/.ssh/config to override system defaults.

Best regards, Martin

[1] https://man.openbsd.org/ssh_config#LogVerbose

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