{"id":2944,"date":"2016-04-13T20:56:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2016-04-13T20:56:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:56:43","slug":"how-did-i-never-know-about-sshconfig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"how did i never know about .ssh\/config?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure folks have tried to explain this to me before, but it wasn&#8217;t until <em>today<\/em> that it finally clicked &#8211; using <code>.ssh\/config<\/code> will save you a world of hurt when managing various systems from a {{Linux}} host (I imagine it works on other platforms, too &#8211; but I&#8217;ve only started using it on {{CentOS}}).<\/p>\n<p>Following directions I found <a href=\"http:\/\/nerderati.com\/2011\/03\/17\/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-config-file\">here<\/a>, I started a <code>config<\/code> file on a server I use as a jump box. In it I have an entry for my <a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2016\/02\/24\/its-been-4-5-years\">web server<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll be adding other frequently-accessed servers to it as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, nerderati, <a href=\"http:\/\/linux.die.net\/man\/5\/ssh_config\">man pages<\/a> &#8230; and whomever else tried to explain this to me before but I didn&#8217;t grok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure folks have tried to explain this to me before, but it wasn&#8217;t until today that it finally clicked &#8211; using .ssh\/config will save you a world of hurt when managing various systems from a {{Linux}} host (I imagine it works on other platforms, too &#8211; but I&#8217;ve only started using it on {{CentOS}}). &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2944\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">how did i never know about .ssh\/config?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[280,390,450,668,712],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-encryption","tag-how-to","tag-linux","tag-security","tag-ssh"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}