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What I have working now suits my purposes, and if there is community
interest, I would submit a patch along these lines, also incorporating
further comments you may have.

I appreciate your work and use case, though I do not currently think
this is something I want (another SSH connection plugin) in core.

Thankfully, the connection plugins are *very* tiny, and it's pluggable
for exactly this reason.

The connections don't change very often, so you should not have any
trouble at all with this approach.

Now, this is a ginormously long thread, so I'm not really sure what
it's about anymore, and responses are also long.

If it turns out we can't set ansible_ssh_user via inventory variables
and make it actually /use/ that username, I believe that is something
we need to fix.

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Sounds good to me. Support of the ansible_ssh_user host variable would
be a fine solution. If I develop code using that approach, I’ll post in a new thread.

Thank you for sharing your analysis and advice.

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Long thread, but we're going to re-look at making ansible_ssh_user as
a variable settable in 1.1.

There was some confusion with a patch for it later, but it needed to
be tweaked some anyway.

Hopefully reasonably soon.

--Michael