SSH Trick

Posted by mike on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 · 1 Comment 

To start off with.. I know you can do this in DNS using a search parameter but I don’t want to do that in my envirnoment.

Sometimes you are working with a hostname that is long due to the domain name. This is the case where I am currently working, the domain is theopenskyproject.com. So I did the following and added into my ~/.bashrc

function ssh() { /usr/bin/ssh $1.theopenskyproject.com; }

You can now do the following

ssh node1
ssh user@node1

Right now its pretty simple. Flags won’t work with ssh. If you want you can make it more shorthand by calling the function s

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Currently works for OpenSky as a Senior Linux Admin. He has a wonderful wife Thanuja and 2 great dogs. His major side project is Photoblog.

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  1. No Znx! » SSH Magic says:
    April 7, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    [...] friend of mine just recently posted a trick with long hostnames when using SSH. I have commented before many times when I see people making aliases or [...]

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