From: Daan De Meyer <daan@amutable.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 07:16:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: ssh-proxy: Default to root user
X-Git-Tag: v261-rc3~46
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ec161c5b9ababc119c42883de40a23bd8d14bbb;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

ssh-proxy: Default to root user

When ssh-ing into a VM, you generally do not want to log
in as your user from the host. Let's default to the root
user unless a user is explicitly specified.
---

diff --git a/src/ssh-generator/20-systemd-ssh-proxy.conf.in b/src/ssh-generator/20-systemd-ssh-proxy.conf.in
index e43560aa74b..f88eca3275c 100644
--- a/src/ssh-generator/20-systemd-ssh-proxy.conf.in
+++ b/src/ssh-generator/20-systemd-ssh-proxy.conf.in
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Host .host machine/.host
 # Make sure machine/* can be used to connect to local machines registered in machined.
 #
 Host unix/* unix%* vsock/* vsock%* vsock-mux/* vsock-mux%* machine/* machine%*
+        User root
         ProxyCommand {{LIBEXECDIR}}/systemd-ssh-proxy %h %p
         ProxyUseFdpass yes
         CheckHostIP no