File Location
The SSH client-side configuration file is named config which is stored in the .ssh directory under the user’s home directory. By default, the config file will not be present and the user needs to create it using the touch command. This file should be readable and writable only by the user and should not be accessed by others.
How to configure SSH Client in Linux ?
At times we may need to access multiple remote systems with different IP addresses/hostnames, usernames, non-standard-ports with various command-line options. One way is to create a bash alias for each remote connection. But we have an easy and much better solution to this problem. OpenSSH allows to create per-user configuration file to store different SSH options for each remote server. In this article, we will see the basics of SSH Client configuration with some examples.
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