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Linux Administration Cookbook
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Linux Administration Cookbook

by Adam K. Dean
December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using an SSH config file

If we wanted to create this forwarding setup each time we connected to centos2, we can add the option to our SSH configuration file.

Add the emboldened line in the following code:

Host * !CentOS2-V6 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 Port 22Host CentOS2-V4 Hostname 192.168.33.11 LocalForward 9999 127.0.0.1:8888 User vagrantHost CentOS2-V6 Hostname fe80::a00:27ff:fe56:c5a7%%eth1 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa Port 22 User vagrantHost CentOS2-Hostname Hostname centos2 User vagrant

Now, if you SSH to the host specified, you will create a forwarded connection without having to specify it:

[vagrant@centos1 ~]$ ssh -f CentOS2-V4 sleep 120[vagrant@centos1 ~]$ curl 127.0.0.1:9999<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"><html> ...
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