I may have found a bug in openssh.
I raise it here as the ssh mailing list is actually a newsgroup that
no-one seems to use.
I can ssh jer...@client.example.com without the issue
I have created a ~/.ssh/config file with contents
Host jeremy_client
HostName client.example.com
User jeremy
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/com.example.jeremy.id_rsa
when I ssh jeremy_client I get two issues:
1. The host ssh client is unrecognised so needs adding to the
known_hosts file
2. The known hosts file used is /etc/ssh/known_hosts rather that
~/.ssh/known_hosts - which causes a permissions error
Is this a bug or a feature?
I can solve the immediate problem by adding a line to the config entry.
Host jeremy_client
HostName client.example.com
User jeremy
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/com.example.jeremy.id_rsa
UserKnownHostsFile ~/.ssh/known_hosts
ssh -V
OpenSSH_8.4p1 Debian-5+deb11u1, OpenSSL 1.1.1n 15 Mar 2022
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Jeremy
