Bug#954965: /etc/ssh/ssh_config: ssh_config: Include custom config files at the end, so they can overwrite the default settings
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:33:20PM +0100, Jan wrote:
> /etc/ssh/ssh_config now includes /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf but does so
> at the beginning. Thus custom config files cannot overwrite the default
> options, all of which are set afterwards.
But, as ssh_config(5) says, "the first obtained value for each parameter
is used". I tested this and confirmed that it was possible to use files
in /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf to override default options in
/etc/ssh/ssh_config.
What tests did you perform?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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