I don't think there are any obvious security reasons not to support it of course you never know what goes through the mind of the OpenBSD team. I've never used it but yeah it sure would be useful because including is way easier than editing in place. What we've always done is deploy from svn/git with a templating system like Maven which works really well. Now all that said I was curious and googled, and it looks like this is something new https://superuser.com/questions/247564/is-there-a-way-for-one-ssh-config-file-to-include-another-one I have Ubuntu 18.04 at my fingertips and it does not exist there. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org