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Re: Changing the default user for an ssh login
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 12:19:18 -0700
- Subject: Re: Changing the default user for an ssh login
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <001c01c44b1d$45035e80$6401a8c0@who5>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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