Slightly embarrassed that in more than a decade of daily ssh use I've never made use of ssh client config to simplify connecting to commonly used hosts. The idea is you can just ssh foo rather than ssh -p 12345 fluffy@foo.blah-blah.on.ca .... This is especially useful if you connect to a lot of EC2 hosts frequently and don't want to remember their ugly names (or setup DNS). Best understood by example:
Contents of ~/.ssh/config:host ec2-webserver hostname ec2-123-456-78-90.compute-1.amazonaws.com user root identityfile ~/my-ec2-key.pem compression yes protocol 2 host home hostname my.place.com port 51000 user fluffy identityfile ~/.ssh/id_dsa ServerAliveInterval 15 ServerAliveCountMax 4 compression yes protocol 2
After this is setup, you can simply type ssh ec2-webserver or ssh home rather than the full ssh command. There are a million other ssh client config options you can set, too. As expected, all the ssh tools like scp honour these settings.
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