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[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this was deliberate upstream, probably this:

    - ssh(1): Tweak config re-parsing with host canonicalisation - make the
      second pass through the config files always run when host name
      canonicalisation is enabled (and not whenever the host name changes)

In fact this was not documented to work before; even in Debian stable
the documentation for Host says "The host is the hostname argument given
on the command line (i.e. the name is not converted to a canonicalized
host name before matching)."

Try "CanonicalizeHostname yes", which is documented to control this.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1487361

Title:
  6.9 stopped respecting "User" in previous stanzas

Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  My ~/.ssh/config has

  Host *.canonical.com
      User pitti

  and some convenience aliases as the actual host names change from time
  to time:

  Host cdimage
      HostName nusakan.canonical.com

  Host langpack
      HostName macquarie.canonical.com

  For years, until the previous Wily version 6.7 this was working as
  expected. But since today with 6.9 trying to ssh to e. g. langpack
  stopped taking the "User pitti" into account:

  $ ssh -v cdimage
  [...]
  debug1: Authenticating to nusakan.canonical.com:22 as 'martin'
  [...]
  Permission denied (publickey).

  "martin" is my local user name at my laptop, i. e. the  default when
  "User" isn't set.

  If I don't use the alias and do "ssh nusakan.canonical.com" it does
  apply the User setting.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: openssh-client 1:6.9p1-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.1.0-3.3-generic 4.1.3
  Uname: Linux 4.1.0-3-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Aug 21 10:14:46 2015
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   ssh-askpass       N/A
   libpam-ssh        N/A
   keychain          N/A
   ssh-askpass-gnome 1:6.9p1-1
  SSHClientVersion: OpenSSH_6.9p1 Ubuntu-1, OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015
  SourcePackage: openssh
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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