With the new job came a new computer, an official company
computer all set up for me. They did a
good job setting it up and I do have admin rights to it, but they also set up
my default username on it. And of course
the username is not my go to default username.
As a result every time I need to ssh into one of my boxes
from my new laptop I need to prepend my username. For example
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> ssh username@www.whiteboarcoder.com
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If my machine had the same username I would not have to add
this at all.
If you do not know your current username just run the
following
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> whoami
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I poked around trying to see if there was a way it could
default to a different user when I ssh'd to a certain box and I found this page
Long story short you can add some Hosts to a configure file
in your .ssh directory.
Open the config file for editing
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> vi ~/.ssh/config
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And place something like the following in it (Adjust it for
your needs)
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####################
#
# Personal
#
###################
Host white
Hostname www.whiteboardcoder.com
user username
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Now if I run this
from the command line
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> ssh white
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Its as if I am
runnig
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> ssh username@www.whiteboardcoder.com
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You can do add as
many as you want for example
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####################
#
# Personal
#
###################
Host white
Hostname www.whiteboardcoder.com
user username
####################
#
# Work
#
###################
Host yahoo
Hostname www22.yahoo.com
user pbailey
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You can also
designate ports to use as well (if you use non-standard ports)
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####################
#
# Personal
#
###################
Host white
Hostname
www.whiteboardcoder.com
user patman
Port 2222
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This is a big time
saver (especially if you have dozens of different servers you access, you can make
short quick names for them for example web1, web2, web3, web4….)
References
[1] Simplify Your Life With an SSH Config File
Accessed
08/2014