Thankfully, SSH allows you to create a config file to house all of that information. So, instead of having to type something like ssh [email protected] -p 2222, you could simply type ssh web1.

One of the added benefits of using ssh's config file is that programs like scp, rsync, and rdiff-backup automatically pick up these options also and work just as you'd expect (hope). Mitch Frazier is ...

The same thing will happen, only the dnf update command will run on our RHEL-based hosts defined in the SSH config file. And that’s all there is to creating a script to run a command on multiple ...

The FOSSwire blog points out a one-line addition to the end of the client's SSH configuration file (found at /etc/ssh/ssh_config in many systems) to fix this: ServerAliveInterval 180 ...

ssh-keyscan -H 192.168.1.162 >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts The command will run and add the remote SSH fingerprint to the local machine without your input, as shown below.