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Very useful. I'm currently using ~/.ssh/config. I gave nickname for the servers and all parameters are in the config: Host my-foo HostName 54.xx.xx.xx Us

Very useful. I'm currently using ~/.ssh/config. I gave nickname for the servers and all parameters are in the config: Host my-foo HostName 54.xx.xx.xx User my_user IdentityFile ~/.ssh/server_key.pem So, just: ssh my-foo

dajohnson89 11y ago
Yeah that's what I do too. How is ssh2 any better? Especially considering (IIRC) that tab-complete works for ~/.ssh/config .
jon-wood 11y ago
We're using a wrapper around SSH which generates an ssh_config file listing our current EC2 instances, including aliases for instance id, role, and name tags. It does slow down starting SSH if you don't have the list of instances cached, but otherwise is pretty nice.
- rhapsodyv 11y ago
  Do you mind share your script? It seems very useful.
  - jon-wood 11y ago
    At the moment its a horrible hack which is so specific to our environment I'm not sure I want to share it, but I might make something more generic and share that.
Shorel 11y ago
I was about to post the same. ~/.ssh/config with identity files (certs) is the right way to ssh. And ssh config entries can be used in other software, for example I use them in mc.