On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:23:39PM -0500, John Mort wrote: > Ah, okay. So there's no way to get around having to manually point > out the location of the private key when I'm making the ssh > connection? > > Basically, rather than typing: ssh -i ~/.keys/theprivatekey [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I want to be able to just type: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and have it figure out which key to use. This is mainly because I go > into his machine regularly and would like to reduce the amount of > typing required to make the connection.
~/.ssh/config
Host atldb-sv
User mkershaw
Compression yes
TCPKeepAlive yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_atldb
LocalForward 8000 localhost:80
Note that it matches on string, not on dns, so what you type for host is
what it matches. If you use IP, put the IP for the Host fooo.
-m
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