Bug 2840

Summary:	ssh: Include directive not supported as a command-line option
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	pva <peter.volkov>
Component:	ssh	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	djm, jjelen
Priority:	P5
Version:	7.6p1
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	2852

Description pva 2018-03-17 00:02:35 AEDT

Whenever I try to use `ssh -o Include='/some/path' host` I receive the error:

Include directive not supported as a command-line option

Yet man ssh states that Include is supported Value for -o command line option. Either manual page or ssh needs to be fixed.

Comment 1 Jakub Jelen 2018-03-17 03:17:59 AEDT

This is probably documentation issue. The code is made that way, the include directive is not supported on command-line (there you can use -F switch for specific configuration file).

The following patch should make things clear:

diff --git a/ssh.1 b/ssh.1
index b4078525..dfad2927 100644
--- a/ssh.1
+++ b/ssh.1
@@ -499,7 +499,6 @@ For full details of the options listed below, and their possible values, see
 .It IdentitiesOnly
 .It IdentityAgent
 .It IdentityFile
-.It Include
 .It IPQoS
 .It KbdInteractiveAuthentication
 .It KbdInteractiveDevices

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2018-04-06 13:34:59 AEST

Applied - thanks

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2021-04-23 14:53:10 AEST

closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release