samrocketman/ssh_aliases.md

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Aliasing hosts using ssh `config`.

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In ~/.ssh/config you can specify host aliases. For example, let's say you have two different keys you want to use for the same user living on the same host. You would do that in the following manner... (excerpt from ~/.ssh/config)

Host localhost
  User git
  IdentityFile /home/systems/.ssh/id_rsa
Host myaliashost
  HostName localhost
  User git
  IdentityFile /home/systems/.ssh/another_id_rsa

You can connect to the git user living on localhost using either key with the following ssh commands....

id_rsa - command ssh git@localhost
another_id_rsa - ssh git@myaliashost

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