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authorJeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org>2019-12-03 10:42:58 -0500
committerJeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org>2019-12-03 10:50:46 -0500
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Beef up mentions of the need for Invoke, when using Match exec, in the docs
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@@ -61,11 +61,15 @@ Paramiko releases) are included. A keyword by itself means no known departures.
- ``Host``
- ``HostName``: used in ``%h`` :ref:`token expansion <TOKENS>`
-- ``Match``: fully supported, with the usual caveat that connection-time
- information is not present during config lookup, and thus cannot be used to
- determine matching. This primarily impacts ``Match user``, which can match
- against loaded ``User`` values but has no knowledge about connection-time
- usernames.
+- ``Match``: fully supported, with the following caveats:
+
+ - You must have the optional dependency Invoke installed; see :ref:`the
+ installation docs <paramiko-itself>` (in brief: install
+ ``paramiko[invoke]`` or ``paramiko[everything]``).
+ - As usual, connection-time information is not present during config
+ lookup, and thus cannot be used to determine matching. This primarily
+ impacts ``Match user``, which can match against loaded ``User`` values
+ but has no knowledge about connection-time usernames.
.. versionadded:: 2.7