[PATCH] Expand %n in User parameters
Tobias Umbach
flisk at fastmail.de
Sun Sep 30 08:41:28 AEST 2018
This patch adds expansion of the %n token to "User"-parameters in ssh_config
files, allowing configurations like:
Host service1 service2
HostName services.example.com
Host service1
User service1
Host service2
User service2
... to be expressed more tersely:
Host service1 service2
HostName services.example.com
User %n
---
ssh.c | 7 ++++++-
ssh_config.5 | 3 +++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ssh.c b/ssh.c
index 849fae35..3202697d 100644
--- a/ssh.c
+++ b/ssh.c
@@ -1266,8 +1266,13 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
seed_rng();
- if (options.user == NULL)
+ if (options.user == NULL) {
options.user = xstrdup(pw->pw_name);
+ } else {
+ cp = options.user;
+ options.user = percent_expand(cp, "n", host_arg, (char
*)NULL);
+ free(cp);
+ }
/* Set up strings used to percent_expand() arguments */
if (gethostname(thishost, sizeof(thishost)) == -1)
diff --git a/ssh_config.5 b/ssh_config.5
index 27136dbd..1f0c368c 100644
--- a/ssh_config.5
+++ b/ssh_config.5
@@ -1761,6 +1761,9 @@ accepts the tokens %%, %C, %h, %i, %L, %l, %n, %p,
%r, and %u.
.Cm HostName
accepts the tokens %% and %h.
.Pp
+.Cm User
+accepts the tokens %% and %n.
+.Pp
.Cm IdentityAgent
and
.Cm IdentityFile
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