You can avoid command line tedium and simplify access to a fleet of servers by creating a flexible configuration file for your SSH client. Here’s how.

The /etc/ssh/ssh_config file is the file used for system-wide client configuration for SSH. The configurations found here only come into play when the ssh command is used to connect to another host.

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