Adopting a host from ~/.ssh/config only to write « User erplibre » under its
guests defeats the point: those hosts are not necessarily ERPLibre VMs, and a
guest follows its parent's convention because the parent created it.
The declared User is now read and propagated — to the guest entries, to the
summary line, and to the qemu+ssh URI handed to virt-manager. Only when
nothing is declared does QEMU_VM_USER apply, the cloud-init account of VMs
deployed from here, now a named constant instead of a literal repeated at
each call site.
Resolution follows OpenSSH: the FIRST User among the matching blocks wins,
wildcards included. That is the opposite of what one expects, so it was
checked against ssh -G rather than the manual: with « Host * / User global »
placed first, ssh really does report global even for a host that declares its
own — which is why the manual tells you to put « Host * » last. The
implementation matches on both layouts.
« user@host » is also accepted when typing a raw address, and otherwise the
account is asked with QEMU_VM_USER as default.
ssh-copy-id needed no change: it is given the alias, whose block now carries
the right User.
Verified on a config with a per-host User, a host without one and a trailing
« Host * »: the three resolutions correct, the guest written with mathben and
not erplibre, and virt-manager offered ('hyperviseur', 'mathben').
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mathieu Benoit
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