add: using a remote path doesn't load the configuration

[ghost]

version: 0.41.3

dvc remote add ssh ssh://localhost
dvc remote modify ssh user none
dvc remote modify ssh port 111
dvc config cache.ssh ssh
dvc add remote://ssh/something

ERROR: unexpected error - [Errno None] Unable to connect to port 111 on 127.0.0.1 or ::1

⚠️ Couldn't reproduce the issue ⚠️

More context:
https://discordapp.com/channels/485586884165107732/485596304961962003/585454599117471744

[thomasryck]

I couldn't reproduce the issue with your command workflow.
The only difference I see, is that I was using:
dvc add ssh://sshcache/incident_old.csv
and
in your workflow it is:
dvc add remote://sshcache/incident_old.csv

[thomasryck]

https://dvc.org/doc/user-guide/external-outputs

I guess the doc is misleading on that point

It says :

#Add data on SSH directly
$ dvc add ssh://[email protected]:/mydata

[ghost]

@thomasryck , thanks for the notice!

The problem here is that when you are using the ssh syntax you need to provide everything on the URI (user, port, etc.), however, with remote:// the configuration it is going to be fetched from such remote.

(cc: @jorgeorpinel maybe is worth to open an issue about this on the docs 🤔 )

[jorgeorpinel]

Did I capture the issue correctly? iterative/dvc.org#411

[ryokugyu]

I couldn't reproduce the issue with your command workflow.
The only difference I see, is that I was using:
dvc add ssh://sshcache/incident_old.csv
and
in your workflow it is:
dvc add remote://sshcache/incident_old.csv

I am getting this error while running the dvc add ssh://sshcache/car.txt