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Hello! I'm hoping that Gmail won't HTML format this mail so that I'll get flamed :) Anyway, my question relates to ssh_config. The problem I find is that the Host pattern is only applied to the argument given on the command line, as outlined in the man page: "The host is the hostname argument given on the command line (i.e. the name is not converted to a canonicalized host name

...at is run "before". Now of course starting a command before ssh, can be done via shell script wrapping and that like. The disadvantage here is however, that I cannot easily start commands on a per host basis, unless I write my own parser for SSH config files, which also takes things like CanonicaliseHostnames into account. Typical example for starting something *before* ssh would be, e.g. kinit, that requests a kerberos ticket, or perhaps (for certain special hosts) brining up some ppp network route or whatever. But actually "just" starting something before ssh isn't the only thing I...

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2074 Bug ID: 2074 Summary: Host key verification incorrectly handles IPv6 addresses Classification: Unclassified Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 6.1p1 Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Keywords: needs-release-note

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2538 Bug ID: 2538 Summary: openssh v7 config parse regression Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 7.1p1 Hardware: Other OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component: ssh Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org