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Allow passing ssh options the cli

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by comparing the Docker CLI's SSH connection handling with docker/cli/pull/2541, focusing on where the hard-coded ConnectTimeout=30 is applied. Determine how CLI SSH options or the user's .ssh/config should be passed through, and verify that a longer connection timeout can be configured without changing the default behavior.

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Description

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Description

I found docker/cli/pull/2541 but that doesn't extend to the cli, just the docker/cli module.

My use case is that the hard-coded

ConnectTimeout=30

is too short.

Alternatively, respecting connection flags in the user's .ssh/config file would suffice.

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