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eachnet
2016 Dec 19
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config file line length limit
...ssh barfs if my .ssh/config file contains a very
long comment line. basically it tries to parse anything beyond
the 1022-th char as regular input, not a comment.
i discovered this behavior by accident. i have an ansible script
that spins up new AWS instances. it creates an ssh config stanza
for eachnew instance. at the start of the stanza, the script puts
a commentline containing amazon's JSON description of the instance.
dueto recent changes made by amazon, the description is longer than
it used to be, making the comment longer. then ssh started failing.
example (using the attached config...