# For those waiting on patches to ansible\_ssh\_port/delegate\_to on the head of the development branch

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/for-those-waiting-on-patches-to-ansible-ssh-port-delegate-to-on-the-head-of-the-development-branch/11994>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 17, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/for-those-waiting-on-patches-to-ansible-ssh-port-delegate-to-on-the-head-of-the-development-branch/11994 "2012-10-17T23:25:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/for-those-waiting-on-patches-to-ansible-ssh-port-delegate-to-on-the-head-of-the-development-branch/11994/1 "2012-10-17T23:25:34Z")

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I've pushed some changes that may make you happy.

For what it's worth, here is my host file I use for testing that shows  
the host and port override syntax.

[main]  
127.0.0.1

[delegates]  
dnehost ansible\_ssh\_host=127.0.0.1 ansible\_ssh\_port=1234

You can of course still use host:port syntax on single hosts like so,  
though if you set ansible\_ssh\_host it's referring to the port on  
\*THAT\* host.

[somegroup]  
example:1234