On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, prad<prad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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"
