ssh_config "Tag" - really only one?

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 09:16:59PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
>On 09/09/2026 21:11, Brian Candler wrote:
>>That seems confusing, and I would have thought it would be better to 
>>abort with an error message if -P is supplied more than once.
>
>Having said that, the current behaviour *is* internally consistent 
>with the rest of ssh option parsing. For example, if you specify the 
>login name multiple times, it's not rejected: first wins.

But it doesnt make sense to specify multiple target hosts, user names, 
identities. It DOES make sense to specify more than one Tag, in the same 
way it makes sense to specify multiple -o options.

Greetings
Marc

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