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How to Use an SSH Config File on macOS for Easier Connections to Your Data Center Servers Jack Wallen shows you how to make SSH connections even easier from your macOS machine.
The only thing you'll need is a MacBook or iMac that includes SSH and some remote servers to connect to.
How to create the config file Step 1: Change SSH directory.
Step 3: SSH into server To SSH into our Nextcloud server, you'll only have to type the command: ssh nextcloud.
Let's say you use the same account on all of your data center servers on the IP address scheme 192.168.1.x. You could configure that at the top of the config file with two simple lines: Host 192.168.1.* User USERNAME. Where USERNAME is the user on the remote machines.
Pub Save the file, and you're ready to SSH into those machines with commands like: ssh nextcloud ssh web1 ssh db1.