Re: [arch-general] bash remote host completion gone

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, prad<prad@towardsfreedom.com> wrote:

i had remote host completion: ssh hostna[tab] with my original debian .bashrc file.

now with a new arch install it is gone and setting this export HOSTFILE=$HOME/.hosts doesn't bring it back even when i put the hostnames from /etc/hosts into that file.

bash-completion is there and working just fine - except for the remote host completion.

how can i get the remote hostnames to complete using [tab] again?

You need to shutoff the host-hashing setting for ssh. In /etc/ssh/ssh_config (or your ~/.ssh/config), set "HashKnownHosts no"