Bug#54823: openssh: config file parse error

[Philip Hands]

"Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <markus.oberhumer at jk.uni-linz.ac.at> writes:

> Package: ssh
> Version: 1.2.1pre24-1
> Severity: important
> 
> I've just upgraded from ssh-nonfree to openssh and it seems
> that openssh doesn't allow an additional `=' in the
> config file options - but ssh 1.2.27 does.
> 
> Attached is my ~/.ssh/config.
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
> #
> #  ~/.ssh/config
> #
> 
> Host *
>     FallBackToRsh = no
>     UseRsh = no

Hi Markus,

I think you'll find this is an undocumented feature of ssh-nonfree,
and that OpenSSH is implementing the manual as it's written. That
hardly qualifies as an ``Important'' bug IMO.  ``Wishlist'', maybe.

Anyway, if the upstream authors agree that it shouldn't choke on equal
signs, as I do, then it'll get changed, but I don't think it's
important enough to make Debian's behaviour differ from the rest.

Cheers, Phil.