Mar 25, 2020, 23:07 by [email protected]: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:33:20PM +0100, Jan wrote: > >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config now includes /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf but does so >> at the beginning. Thus custom config files cannot overwrite the default >> options, all of which are set afterwards. >> > But, as ssh_config(5) says, "the first obtained value for each parameter > is used". > I have to admit that I missed that. Even more embarrassing as it's also state in the beginning of /etc/ssh/ssh_config. It does not apply in my case though, see below.
> I tested this and confirmed that it was possible to use files > in /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf to override default options in > /etc/ssh/ssh_config. > > What tests did you perform? > I want to avoid sending any environment, but /etc/ssh/ssh_config has | SendEnv LANG LC_* So I originally put | Host * | SendEnv -LANG -LC_* into /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/no_env.conf. It works when I included that file at the very end of /etc/ssh/ssh_config. Just setting SendEnv at the beginning (via included files) does not help because this option has append semantics and the prepended dash only remove entries that already exist. Regards, Jan
