Bug#954965: /etc/ssh/ssh_config: ssh_config: Include custom config files at the end, so they can overwrite the default settings

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

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 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?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]