Re: OpenSSH option to set default hostkey directory?

From: jfkfcia@yahoo.com
Date: 02/11/03 

From: jfkfcia@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:46:34 -0800

Okay, got it. Thanks.

The manpage also states that config data is parsed in the following
order: CLI options, user's config file, system-wide config file. But
what's not clear to me is quite how the Host keyword sections are
parsed in the user's config file.

For example if I have:

Host alpha
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/batchmode
Host *
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
        (lots of other options)

...and I ssh to the host "alpha", then will ssh stop after matching
alpha, and not apply any of the (lots of other options)? Or will it
use the options specified for alpha, and continue reading, and since
alpha also matches "*" apply those rules?

Just wondering if a given host will only match one "Host" ruleset, and
not also apply wildcard rules.

thanks,
jfkfcia

On 10 Feb 2003 00:11:02 -0500, slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman)
wrote:

>Read the first few paragraphs of ssh_config(5).

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