Mosh supports .ssh/config


I've recently started using Mosh. It's a clever bit of software that keeps your SSH sessions running, even if your client goes offline or changes IP address.

But I find the syntax used to launch it a bit verbose and easy to forget. A typical command is something like:

mosh --ssh="ssh -p 1234" myname@example.com

Within the FAQ is a fleeting mention of how to configure Mosh. It says:

Q: How do I use a different SSH port (not 22)?
As of Mosh 1.2, you can pass arguments to ssh like so:
mosh remotehost --ssh="ssh -p 2222"
Or configure a host alias in ~/.ssh/config with a Port directive. Mosh will respect that too.

What it doesn't say is that Mosh will use all the directives in ~/.ssh/config. So you can have something like:

Host home
     HostName example.com
     User myname
     Port 1234

Then you can run mosh home to connect. If you don't want to use passwords, you can add IdentityFile ~/.ssh/example.key or similar.

Perhaps you already knew that - but I didn't.


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