On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Joerg Ruhe wrote:

Hello Roland,

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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?

Thanks for your answer.

Thats exactly what happend. A setting in /etc/ssh/ssh_config overrides an user setting ( I tried this with several options ).

Does it work that way on your system ?

These are from my system: debug1: Reading configuration data /home/rkuhn/.ssh/config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * I just verified that the settings from /home/rkuhn/.ssh/config override the ones from /etc/ssh/ssh_config. Ciao, Roland +---------------------------+-------------------------+ | TU Muenchen | | | Physik-Department E18 | Raum 3558 | | James-Franck-Str. | Telefon 089/289-12592 | | 85747 Garching | | +---------------------------+-------------------------+