Translations:SSH configuration file/2/en
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On Linux and macOS you can modify your local SSH configuration file to change the default behaviour of ssh and simplify the login procedure. For example, if you want to login to narval.computecanada.ca as username using a SSH key you may need to use the following command:
[name@yourLaptop ~] ssh -i ~/.ssh/your_private_key username@narval.computecanada.ca
To avoid having to type this command each time you want to connect to Narval, add the following to ~/.ssh/config on your local machine:
Host narval User username HostName narval.computecanada.ca IdentityFile ~/.ssh/your_private_key