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I would like to connect to each server using the root user and to machin server using me user.

I edit .ssh/config

 User root
 Host machin
 Hostname machin
 User me

When I type 

 ssh machin

I get 

 root@machin's password:

What is wrong with my config?

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According to the ssh_config manual page:

Since the first obtained value for each parameter is used, more host-specific declarations should be given near the beginning of the file, and general defaults at the end.

You should change the order of your configuration values, first set the host-specific ones then the general ones:

Host machin
Hostname machin
User me
User root
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