Comments on: Setup an SSH Config File

By: g

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:21:05 +0000

That wouldn’t work e.g. with git on a non-standard port while tunneling over ssh.

By: James

James — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:52:11 +0000

This isn’t working for me. When I type ssh shortcutname I get

ssh: Could not resolve hostname shortcutname: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

I followed the instructions and nano reported that it had wrote four lines. Any ideas? Many thanks.

By: Use Aliases to Create SSH Shortcuts

Use Aliases to Create SSH Shortcuts — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:16:35 +0000

[...] Line – April 11th, 2011 – No Comments More fun with SSH! We showed you how to setup SSH config files and use tab completion for SSH aliases, but setting up bash aliases is even easier if you are [...]

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:09:28 +0000

Or use LocalForward to forward a port on localhost to a machine on the remote network, for example RDP to a *cough*dos host:

LocalForward 3389 192.168.1.24:3389

rdesktop localhost:3389 will log you in to the *hatsjoe*dos machine on the remote LAN.

Sorry about the cold, folks.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:06:16 +0000

If you login to host after host after host to get where you want you might want to add

EscapeChar !

or even

EscapeChar none

to avoid getting logged out of the first connection when really wanting to stop ‘cu’ or ‘tip’ or ‘ssh’ on the remote machine.

By: Enable Tab Completion for SSH Aliases

Enable Tab Completion for SSH Aliases — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:13:01 +0000

[...] Line – April 6th, 2011 – No Comments Yesterday we showed you how to setup a basic SSH Config file, and here’s how to make that even more useful: enable tab completion for those SSH [...]

By: diavolo

diavolo — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:16:08 +0000

why not simply use an alias?

I regularly type “box” which is an alias to “ssh myuser@ip”

A port can be added with :port# at the end… this alias survives all reboots.

I guess it is another way to do it…

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:26:03 +0000

Host 10.1.10.*
StrictHostKeyChecking no
UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null

quite handy for when you use ssh in a lab with servers that often change (dev/test)