[Bug 306430] Re: ~/.ssh/config does not handle multiple hosts correctly

[malheum]

I can confirm this bug on fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04.2, i386

$ dpkg -l openssh-client\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                   Version                                Beschreibung
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
ii  openssh-client                         1:4.7p1-8ubuntu1.2                     secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement

This is a working config, but it does not conform to the man page:
Host 192.168.1.1 rodent
        IdentityFile %d/.ssh/rodent_sysadmin_ssh_key/id_rsa

And this is a non-working config, however it conforms to the man page
Host 192.168.1.1,rodent
        IdentityFile %d/.ssh/rodent_sysadmin_ssh_key/id_rsa

The man page says on this topic:
Host    Restricts the following declarations (up to the next Host keyword) to be only for those hosts that match one of the patterns given after the keyword.  A single
             ‘*’ as a pattern can be used to provide global defaults for all hosts.  The host is the hostname argument given on the command line (i.e. the name is not con‐
             verted to a canonicalized host name before matching).

             See PATTERNS for more information on patterns.

And under PATTERNS:
PATTERNS
     A pattern consists of zero or more non-whitespace characters, ‘*’ (a wildcard that matches zero or more characters), or ‘?’ (a wildcard that matches exactly one charac‐
     ter).  For example, to specify a set of declarations for any host in the “.co.uk” set of domains, the following pattern could be used:

           Host *.co.uk

     The following pattern would match any host in the 192.168.0.[0-9]
network range:

           Host 192.168.0.?

     A pattern-list is a comma-separated list of patterns.  Patterns within pattern-lists may be negated by preceding them with an exclamation mark (‘!’).  For example, to
     allow a key to be used from anywhere within an organisation except from the “dialup” pool, the following entry (in authorized_keys) could be used:

           from="!*.dialup.example.com,*.example.com"

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~/.ssh/config does not handle multiple hosts correctly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306430
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