[ale] ssh is amazing ...

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 13:47 -0500, JD wrote:
> On 12/29/2014 01:23 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > OK. The config is new to me. I've been hacking up connect scripts for
> > years as, well, bash scripts that need a password at some point. This
> > just makes it all a warm happy moment. Cool! I'm sure I've read the man
> > pages for ssh many, many times. Not sure why I never realized the
> > simplicity of the config file.
> 
> Right?!!!?   I'd been doing it the hard way for 15 yrs before someone showed
> this config file to me.  So simple, but us old-guys don't know it for some reason.
> 
> THIS changed my life. Plus it is a handy way to document in a central/useful
> place all those remote systems, remote userids and remote ports.
> 
> 
> BTW - everyone does know about ssh-copy-id, right?

Heh, heh. It's the second command I run on a new job :-) The first is
ssh-keygen.

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