I tried Host targethost User myuser@technicaluser@targethost Hostname jumphost and it worked. Thanks a lot ! Unfortunately this doesn't yet solve my problems with Ansible but this is a different story. But one problem remains: I have lots of targethosts and I would better write something like "Host *.servers", the asterisk stands for all the targethost1 through targethost9999. But the targethost has to be part of the User setting. How can I use the wildcard ? > so with multiple @'s, you're doing the equivalent of > > ssh jumphost -l "myuser@technicaluser@targethost" > > maybe try something like > > Match Host targethost > User myuser@technicaluser@targethost > Hostname jumphost _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev