openssh bugs - May 2024 - [Bug 3688] New: Automatically create Host alias

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3688

            Bug ID: 3688
           Summary: Automatically create Host alias
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 9.7p1
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: ssh
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: moritz.widmann at mail.ch

Defining aliases is currently a somewhat tedious manual process. You
have to add
a `Host` entry to your ssh config file manually. That's why I want to
propose
the addition of two new optional parameters, something like this:
-z alias
        Adds a new Host entry to the ssh config file with the alias as
        the name, with the given host, user and/or port. If the alias
        already exists, it will be overwritten.
-Z alias
        Does the same as -z, but does not connect.
This way you can either execute the actual ssh command and set the
alias (with -z), or just set the alias, with (-Z).

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3688

Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
                 CC|                            |djm at mindrot.org

--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
ssh doesn't modify its config file at present and we don't intend to
change that, sorry.

This seems like a better job for a shell script, rather than adding it
to ssh.

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