Oct 14, 2007
SSH Tricks
I’ve discovered a neat SSH trick / timesaver. You can create per-user ssh configuration files - ~/.ssh/config - which can contain host aliases.
For example, I SSH to ‘host.long.stupid.domain.com’ a lot. I can shorten this by putting:
Host myserv
HostName host.long.stupid.domain.com
User myDomainUser
into the configuration file. Now, I can do:
user:~>ssh myserv
and ssh will effectively run:
ssh myDomainUser@host.long.stupid.domain.com’
without having to type it all. Combine that with ssh keypairs (~/.ssh/authorized_keys2), and you can save a serious amount of typing!
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joat
Alternate method is to use shell aliases (Bash example):
alias 757=”ssh yourname@757.org”
Can also be combined with keypair authentication.
Nov 8th, 2007
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