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Darryl Hein
Asked: 2009-08-21 16:28:04 +0800 CST

Is there a program that uses OSX's Terminal to help manage SSH connection parameters?

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My difficulty: I connect to a variety of servers through SSH, sometimes more than 7. Currently I have doing this through OSX's Terminal with shell commands, which works pretty good, except for the fact that I gotta remember the address, username and port everytime I connect and often I'm typing the full command (because it's too far back in the bash history).

So, I'm wondering if there is a program or script that just runs commands in Terminal that can store the connection information, just to make life a little easier.

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    You can do this by setting per-host defaults in your $HOME/.ssh/config file. Here's the man page the covers the different options that you can set.

    Also, for servers on a local network where you have more control over security, you can use key based authentication (no password required). To do this, you have to generate a client ssh key, and place it on the server. Here's some instructions for Ubuntu which should work for OS X as well HOWTO: SSH & Public Keys

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  2. to search through commands faster try ctrl+r then enter the name/ip of the host and you'll get straight to the command.

    Another way is to set aliases using ssh config (~/.ssh/config/) file like this: Host alias HostName ydoain.com User username

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