I would like to utilize ~/.ssh/config to configure SSH for GNU tar, e.g. Host = tapehost HostName = my.real.tape.server User = someuser ForwardX11 = no IdentityFile ~/.ssh/tape Cipher = blowfish Compression = no PreferredAuthentications = publickey
The above stanza allows me to group a lot of items together so that I can invoke "ssh tapehost" (literally) and ssh will actually connect to my.real.tape.server as someuser will all of the above options. Note that "tapehost" isn't any sort of resolvable hostname. When running "tar -f tapehost:/dev/tape ...", GNU tar attempts to lookup "tapehost" which is normally quite rational but it failes since "tapehost" isn't a real machine name. Perhaps one solution would be a new option for tar to ignore hostname resolution. Thanks for your time, Ryan
