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Package: openssh
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
it would be nice if ssh would allow using tokes in ssh_config for the
IdentityFile keyword to minimize ssh_config files.
Without token, a config might look like this:
---
Host *.example.com
IdentifyFile ~/.ssh/keys/[email protected]
Host *.example.org
IdentifyFile ~/.ssh/keys/[email protected]
--
with token support, I could have:
--
Host *.example.com *.example.org
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/keys/%u@%h
--
Regards,
Daniel
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Source: openssh
Source-Version: 1:4.6p1-1
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 10:26:23AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
it would be nice if ssh would allow using tokes in ssh_config for the
IdentityFile keyword to minimize ssh_config files.
Without token, a config might look like this:
---
Host *.example.com
IdentifyFile ~/.ssh/keys/[email protected]
Host *.example.org
IdentifyFile ~/.ssh/keys/[email protected]
--
with token support, I could have:
--
Host *.example.com *.example.org
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/keys/%u@%h
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I looked back through git history, and it seems as though this was added
in OpenSSH 4.4, all the way back in 2006. See
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159. It's been made a bit
more general since, but even back then it looks as though you could use
"IdentityFile ~/.ssh/keys/%r@%h" (assuming that you meant to use the
remote user name).
Regards,
--
Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
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