Changing the default user for an ssh login

[Brian Dessent]

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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