openssh bugs - Sep 2009 - [Bug 1654] New: ~/.ssh/known_hosts.d/*

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1654

           Summary: ~/.ssh/known_hosts.d/*
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 5.1p1
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: ssh
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: josh at freedesktop.org


I'd really like the ability to have multiple known_hosts files.  This
would greatly simplify the ability to share these files between systems
using various secure methods, such as keeping them in my home
directory's git repository.

Ideally, I'd suggest reading all files in ~/.ssh/known_hosts.d/* by
default, in addition to ~/.ssh/known_hosts.  Alternatively, various
approaches for allowing configuration of multiple known_hosts files
might work; however, I don't know that it makes sense to support
arbitrary files.

I'd suggest continuing to write entries to ~/.ssh/known_hosts, at least
by default.  Users could populate ~/.ssh/known_hosts.d/* manually. 
Eventually it might make sense to write out individual files to
~/.ssh/known_hosts.d/ , but that doesn't seem necessary initially.

Thank you from a happy OpenSSH user.

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