$ touch ~/.ssh/config $ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config Now use your favorite text editor to edit the file and enter the following into it: ...

If you use Secure Shell to log into remote Linux servers throughout the day, you should consider using a config file to make your life easier. Here's how.

SSH obtains configuration data in the following order: command-line options, user's configuration file and system-wide configuration file. All of the options can be explored by browsing man ssh_config ...

If you've ever used SSH, these are some features you might not know about that you can make use of.

With Putty, you can click the “Share SSH connections if possible” button in the SSH options panel. Configuration There are quite a few configuration options you can use in the config file.

If you are in an environment that disallows the use of SSH and forces the use of an HTTP proxy, it is possible to use that HTTP proxy as a transport for SSH. Vincent Danen explains how to use the ...

Looking to eke out as much security as you can from your Linux servers? Jack Wallen shows you how you can limit the information would-be ne'er-do-wells get by disabling the login banner.

One possible mitigation is to add the undocumented configuration option “UseRoaming no” to the global ssh_config file.