[SSHD-559] Add support for reading specific host configuration from config file

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Assignee: Lyor Goldstein
• Reporter: Lyor Goldstein
• Created: 31/Aug/15 06:01
• Updated: 02/Sep/15 05:40
• Resolved: 02/Sep/15 05:40

Description

Allow users to define 'aliases' which refer to hosts configured according to the ssh_config format so that when the code invokes connect(host, port, etc...) the host value may refer to an alias which has been read from the configuration file.

Issue Links

• is related to: SSHD-266 Support for known hosts
• is required by: SSHD-560 Add automatic loading of client's identities from ~/.ssh/id_xxx files