On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 05:23:36 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > NB> That's how I read it, but it says it appends to the list, > > so this is the last option tried, > > while an earlier one could possibly be triggering the failure. > > With + would be better, but it would be worth trying without. > > I tried both & neither gets Ssh to recognise the config. Have you run ssh with -v to see what configuration options it is reading from where. Bear in mind that ssh stops at the first matching host definition, so if you have a "host *" in your config, it must be last. -- Neil Bothwick When puns are outlawed only outlaws will have puns.