question about "ExitOnForwardFailure yes"
eisler opened this issue · 1 comments
eisler commented
is there a difference between "ExitOnForwardFailure yes" and "ExitOnForwardFailure=yes"?
jnovack commented
Yes, laziness and inconsistency. #mybad
-o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes and -o "ExitOnForwardFailure yes" is the same thing.
Semantically, the one with the = sign is a "command-line option", while the one with the " (quotes) is a configuration file option.
In some applications, environment variables may overwrite command-line options may overwrite configuration file options. There could be some hierarchy. I do not know if ssh(1) has that case, I certainly did not write it with a hierarchy in mind, it was just pure laziness in not making it consistent.