Quick Tip: SSH Config

August 22nd, 2008

It’s easy to create shortcuts for all those servers you need to SSH into. There should be a file in your .ssh directory called config. Simply add a few lines to this file and you can refer to those servers by their short name.

Example (~/.ssh/config)

Host foo
  Hostname some.long.hostname.you.cannot.remember.com
  User myuser
  Port 1234

Now you can use your new host when you SSH.

ssh foo

If you want to get even fancier, read the man page for additional options.

man ssh_config

Setup as many as you need and free yourself from SSH hostname hell!

Posted by curtis Filed in Ruby on Rails, Software

2 Responses to “Quick Tip: SSH Config”

  1. no avatar available for Ben Atkin
    Ben Atkin
    August 23rd, 2008
    10:55 AM

    Wow. I never heard about that until now. Thanks for sharing! It’s going to make using sftp a lot less painful.

     
  2. no avatar available for Keith Fligg
    Keith Fligg
    August 24th, 2008
    06:35 AM

    Hmmm. NIce Curtis. I always just create an alias in by .bash_profile, but this seems cleaner.

     

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