RE: Changing the default user for an ssh login

["Warren, Matthew (Retail)" <Matthew dot Warren at Powergen dot co dot uk>]

This will teach me to read the whole thread ... ;P

Matt.

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From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Brian Dessent
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 8:19 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Changing the default user for an ssh login

Gregg C Levine wrote:

> I have a question. How can I change the default user of the Cygwin
> version of SSH from my login name to that of the host that I am going
> to be logging into?
> 
> In this case it is a Linux box, and the user is root. Examining the
> man page for this version of SSH did not prove to be enlightening.

Try "man ssh_config".  There you can supply global defaults and per-host
overrides for most parameters, including user login name.

Brian

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