specific Host not overriding global Host

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Sun Mar 21 20:28:33 EST 2010


On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Ben Lindstrom <mouring at eviladmin.org> wrote:
> >
> > You're going to have to give us an example of your file and what you're typing then.  Mind you the Host command is pretty pick.  IF you stated:
> >
> > Host foo
> >
> > and you are typing "ssh foo.bar.com"  there will be no match.
> 
> 
> === config file ===
> Host example.com
> VisualHostKey no
> 
> Host *
> VisualHostKey yes

I can't replicate this. Using 5.4 and localhost instead of example.com,
"ssh -ouserknownhostsfile=/dev/null localhost" shows no visual hostkey,
while "ssh -ouserknownhostsfile=/dev/null 127.0.0.1" does.

Nothing else uncommented in /etc/ssh_config.

-d


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