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...stanzas in my .ssh/config to keep track of all the different settings and credentials needed to access all different hosts I connect to. Now I have ran in to a problem where I need to switch settings based on what user I'm trying to login to a host as. A simple case is: ssh -i rootkey root at host123 vs. ssh -i userkey username at host123 Up until now I have just used a stanza like Host host123 User username IdentityFile userkey But it would be awesome of it was possible to add before that, eg fist match as all other blocks, a stanza looking like: Host root at host123 IdentityFile rootk...

...s would be so useful): A server, which runs ssh to provide admins the remote shell. It also runs via-ssh services, like git. At first this isn't much of a problem: Even if I want my git users to use another domainname (e.g. git.example.org) than what the admins use to connect to the node (e.g. host123.example.org)... this works out, because nothing forbids the same host key to be used for multiple addresses. But when one starts to do more advanced things like the following, one runs into the limitation: Consider I do not only wish one host behind git.example.org, but rather a round-robin-DNS se...