Security basics

[Lamar Owen]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > With a nonstandard port you do have to remember to use the -p parameter
> > of ssh to connect (and the -P parameter of scp) but in my opinion it's
> > worth it.

> Oooh I'm going to make your day then... I used -p / -P for a long while
> without complaint.  Then I discovered one can set up a two line stanza
> per server in the client side ~/.ssh/config:

Thanks for the pointer; I hadn't done that as yet.
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