Would be great to have ssh config file support.

Well, who in their right mind configures a dozen of identical servers by hand when they can just write "web-worker-*" and then use just a hostname ;)

But what I wrote is more like a layer of defaults, while the OP wanted to treat .ssh/config as a source of easily accessible configurations, more like current import functionality.

ppr wrote:

Parsing of wildcards would be also helpful. For me it would be ideal if it would work like this:...

That's what I feared. In the end, people will ask for a full support :)

Parsing of wildcards would be also helpful. For me it would be ideal if it would work like this:

• global configuration - location of ssh config file, ~/.ssh/config by default
  
• option to use it as defaults when some value is not explicitly configured in WinSCP
  
• matching of entered hostname to `config` entries, with wildcard support
  
• support for things that WinSCP can easily work with, i.e. HostName, Port, User, IdentityFile, ServerAliveInterval+ServerAliveCountMax, ProxyJump
  

Thanks for the consideration!

OK, this request has been added to the tracker:
https://winscp.net/tracker/1896
You can vote for it there.

I think it would be fine to just ignore any sections that use wildcards. Or maybe options in wildcard sections could affect all imported hosts which match, and ignored otherwise.

As above: How exactly do you imagine WinSCP should work with the OpenSSH config?

The config file is not a site manager (while some use like this). It's a pattern matching configuration file.

I think it would be helpful if it were supported as an import source in the "Import sites" dialog box. Of course not all OpenSSH options could be supported, but at least the HostName, Port and User settings could be processed and imported.

However this would still involve a syncing process so maybe it doesn't meet the other poster's needs. But it would be fine for me.

How exactly do you imagine WinSCP should work with the OpenSSH config?

That would be very useful for me also. My openssh config file describe all the servers I need to access on a regular basic (including jumpbox), so it would be awesome if I didn't have to worry about keeping this information in sync with my WinSCP configuration when I need to fetch/upload a file on a machine.

I will be good have something like this setup. As we also use git and like to use config file to manage host.

Thanks for your suggestion.
We will see, if more people ask for this.

Hello,

As i suppose we use more git for windows or other tooling Ubuntu from the market, it could be cool to have a folder "ssh config" that will be automatically populated by the content of the file. Direct editing should be nice but later ?

Also if i have a host named 'srv-ansible' the URL like sftp://srv-ansible/ should go to the right server, with the good user name, using the good id file, like openssh should do ;)

.ssh/config


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