openssh bugs - Mar 2009 - [Bug 866] ssh(1) is too picky about unknown options in ~/.ssh/config

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866





--- Comment #17 from Olav Morken <olavmrk at gmail.com>  2009-03-09
06:21:16 ---
Created an attachment (id=1610)
 --> (http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/attachment.cgi?id=1610)
Patch which allows OpenSSH to ignore unknown options.

This is a patch which implements alternative 1 from Josh Triplett. This
patch makes ssh ignore all unknown options which are prefixed with '@'.
For example, the following works:

Host *
  @InvalidOption asdf

Any chance of having this patch (or something similar) included in
OpenSSH?

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--- Comment #18 from Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> 
2009-03-13 04:16:58 ---
OpenSolaris shipped this ssh_config(4) parameter:

     IgnoreIfUnknown

         Specifies a comma-separated list of  ssh_config  parame-
         ters,  which, if unknown to ssh(1), are to be ignored by
         ssh.

         This parameter is primarily intended to be used  in  the
         per-user ssh_config, ~/.ssh/config. While this parameter
         can also be used in the system wide  /etc/ssh/ssh_config
         file, it is generally useless as the capabilities of the
         ssh(1) client on that host should match that file.

There is no DontIgnoreIfUnknown as I had originally proposed in
PSARC/2004/505 (see
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2007-October/004417.html).

Solaris manpage:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2251/ssh-config-4?l=ja&a=view

OpenSolaris source:

http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/ssh/include/readconf.h
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/ssh/libssh/common/readconf.c

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