Bug#765630: ssh_config(5): errors in the Debian defaults documentation
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:25:40PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> 1) In the beginning of the ssh_config(5) manpage it states:
> > Note that the Debian openssh-client package sets several options as stan‐
> > dard in /etc/ssh/ssh_config which are not the default in ssh(1):
> > · SendEnv LANG LC_*
> > · HashKnownHosts yes
> > · GSSAPIAuthentication yes
>
> Looking however at the current fresh ssh_config shipped in the package
> this misses the entry:
> GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no
It's in fact the upstream default and always has been, so the manual
page isn't *wrong*, but this does mean that setting it explicitly is
redundant. I've removed that for my next upload.
> 2) Also it seems that having ServerAliveInterval=300 when BatchMode=yes
> is a Debian specific thing, which is no where documented.
The behaviour itself was documented in ssh_config(5), but I've committed
a change to note explicitly that it's Debian-specific.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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