Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 2 years, 7 months ago. Active 2 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 41k times. First I am fairly new to SSH. Where in my computer is this config file stored? Improve this question. YulePale YulePale 4, 7 7 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 68 68 bronze badges.
Which ssh client are you using then? I just installed git I am using the git terminal — YulePale. Just create the. Arguments that contain spaces are to be enclosed in double quotes '.
In the sshdconfig file the keywords are case-insensitive while arguments. If you are even a tad bit familiar with SSH, you know that you can use it to connect to remote Linux systems. Using SSH to connect to remote system is simple. All you need to do is to use a command like this:. Now this is all plain and simple if you just have one server.
But things get complicated when you have several servers to manage. I have around ten servers that I connect to from time to time. Some are production servers and some are test servers. Now keeping a track of these servers is not easy. The SSH config file allows you to create different profiles for different host configurations. There is no limit to such profiles and you may add as many as possible.
Your config is also stored here. At least on Ubuntu, the SSH config file is not created by default. You can easily create this file using the touch command like this:.
Let me show you an example of the syntax which you should follow. Your username is Alice and the server is used for hosting your website. If it finds a host with that name, it gets all the information related and used it for making an SSH connection. The previous step gave you an idea about how to add an SSH profile. To be honest, there is so much more to SSH config file that cannot be covered in a single article. After that you should see similar screen as the one below. Your SSH key pair should be created and ready to use.
Once the key generation process is complete, you should be able to access the key pair at the location below. On Unix-like systems, ssh-copy-id is a tool for copying SSH keys to the server. To get your public SSH to the server and enable password-less login, you may have to use PowerShell to do the same in Windows Re-run the command above again to copy your key to the server.
Logon to the remote server with your password, then open SSH configuration file by running the commands below. If you find any error above or have something to add, please use the comment form below.
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