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Today I finally got round to setting up my local user ssh config on my new work laptop and figured I’d do a quick write up on it and it’s uses.

You can create a configuration file in your home directory that will override the options set in your machine-wide config.

Your configuration files

Your local config can be found/created in:

~/.ssh/config

And your machine-wide configuration is in:

/etc/ssh/ssh_config

Rather than editing my ssh config across my whole machine I’m doing it for my local user specifically.

Reading the man page for ssh_config will give you a full list of available options, below I will outline several that I use and find very useful.

Your host definitions

First things first, we need to define a host.

Host host.domain.com

Each host you add to your config will need to have a host …