Hello Joerg! On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Joerg Ruhe wrote:
The man page and the o'reily book state the order in which configuration data is obtained as : 1. command line options, 2. user's configuration file ($HOME/.ssh/config) 3. system-wide configuration file (/etc/ssh/ssh_config)
My trouble is, I'm observing a differnt behaviour ( as you can see in the log below ): OpenSSH_2.9.9p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Reading configuration data /home/ruhej/.ssh/config debug1: Applying options for *
Here the options in the system-wide configuration file are applied first. I have seen this on several differnt computers, all with SuSE 7.3 and openssh 2.9.9p2 .
From an algorithmic standpoint it would make sense to read the configuration files in reverse order, but this doesn't mean anything. Did you experience a setting in /etc/ssh/ssh_config overriding a user setting?
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