Bug 3246 - Include directive doesn't support variable expansion
Summary: Include directive doesn't support variable expansion
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ssh (show other bugs)
Version: 8.4p1
Hardware: amd64 Linux
: P5 enhancement
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Reported: 2021-01-03 00:36 AEDT by Guilhem
Modified: 2021-01-03 01:36 AEDT (History)
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Description Guilhem 2021-01-03 00:36:17 AEDT 
Please consider expanding environment variables (feature request from bug 3140) in the Include directive as well.  This would allow one to use:

    Include ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/ssh/*.conf

(As of 8.4p1 the glob resolves — as documented — to ~/.ssh/${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/ssh/*.conf.)