openssh bugs - Jan 2023 - [Bug 3525] New: ssh man page lists the -Q option as accepting a remote destination

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3525

            Bug ID: 3525
           Summary: ssh man page lists the -Q option as accepting a remote
                    destination
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 9.1p1
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: trevor.hemsley at ntlworld.com

man ssh on Fedora 36 (8.8p1)and Debian 12 (9.1p1) lists the -Q option
as part of the same list as all other options and thus indicates that
it takes a destination hostname. As far as I can see from
experimentation `ssh -Q kex remotehost` and `ssh -Q kex` report exactly
the same list and there are no packets show up in a tcpdump for
'remotehost' so it would appear that ssh -Q always queries the local
system and never communicates remotely. Of course, it would be really
really cool if it did take a remotehost name but I suspect the chances
of getting that changed are slim to non-existent so a doc change seems
like a better route.

Seems to me that the man page should list a second way of running ssh
with only -Q listed and no destination to better differentiate the one
from the other.

i.e 

     ssh [-46AaCfGgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-B bind_interface] [-b
bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-D [bind_address:]port] [-E log_file]
[-e escape_char] [-F configfile]
         [-I pkcs11] [-i identity_file] [-J destination] [-L address]
[-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port] [-R
address]
         [-S ctl_path] [-W host:port] [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]]
destination [command [argument ...]]

or

     ssh -Q query_option

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3525

Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |djm at mindrot.org
             Blocks|                            |3628
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
Nice catch. This has been fixed and will be in openssh-9.6, due around
the end of the year.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3628
[Bug 3628] tracking bug for openssh-9.6
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