Bug#976864: openssh-client: fails to parse quoted setting tokens
Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:8.4p1-2~bpo10+1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
A coworker of mine has stumbled upon a strange inconsistency with ssh
parsing ssh_config.
* What led up to the situation?
An upgrade was performed from v7.9p1-10+deb10u3 to v8.4p1-2~bpo10+1.
Running ssh afterwards failed with the following error:
/etc/ssh/ssh_config line 218: unsupported option
Which references this line of the configuration:
AddKeysToAgent="no"
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
* ineffective)?
Removing the surrounding quotes from the 'no' token.
* What was the outcome of this action?
This allowed the file to be parsed properly, and ssh to work without
issue.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
We expected that the quoted format be accepted.
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