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Is there any way to update openssh on my side, without waiting to apple ? Is this enough ?https://mochtu.de/2015/01/07/updating-openssh-on-mac-os-x-10...

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Even easier, just place this text:

    UseRoaming no

on its own line in your ~/.ssh/config file. If you don't have such a file, create it and put this line into it.

Doing that will only protect you in that OS X user account, but I bet you only ever use one account on your Mac to SSH anyway.

I updated /private/etc/ssh_config on OS X (system-wide vs. user-specific).

I believe that is the config for the daemon, not the client. I think you want ssh_config.

Yeah, typo'd it in my comment above. Thanks, fixed.

You can patch it with:

  # echo 'UseRoaming no' >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config

  $ echo "UseRoaming no" >> ~/.ssh/config

As mentioned in another thread, don't do this blindly. If there are `Host` or`Match` blocks in the config, this new line will only apply to the last of those blocks.

Thanks DrRobinson ! I added it to my .ssh/config

The second one. There is no /etc/ssh on a stock Mac. (Although there is a /private/etc/ssh_config on mine, without the intervening ssh dir)

Hue? There is one on mine. Maybe mine's different because I upgraded from 10.9 to 10.10 to 10.11 whereas you might have started with a later version (or an earlier one)?

You have an /etc/ssh, or just an /etc? I have /etc, which is a symlink to /private/etc, but as I said it has no ssh dir.

FWIW I am on 10.10.5 not 10.11. Maybe there's a change in 10.11. (The article the grandparent links is focused on 10.10 so I assumed that was in the scope of this discussion.)

PS are you on homebrew? maybe homebrew adds it.

Homebrew should not add anything outside of /usr/local iirc.

Yes, that should be enough, be wary of $PATH issues tho.

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