STARIKOVS

Often, when I want to access my remote DigitalOcean server I have to find out the IP address of it. It isn’t comfortable for me so I decided to create a short alias for this IP in /etc/hosts. Now, after I’ve just made an alias, it’s really more comfortable and faster to login to the remove server via ssh.

/ets/hosts

   localhost
       infous-desktop
    your_alias

Login via ssh using the alias

ssh 

UPDATE:

The another way to set the ssh alias is to edit the ~/.ssh/config file.

Host your_alias
Hostname 

Then to login just type:

ssh 

But there’s a shorter way. Again, edit ~/.ssh/config and set:

Host your_alias
Hostname 
User your_user

Now, you can login to your remote host via ssh like:

ssh your_alias

Thanks to everybody that commented this little note and suggested more elegant solutions!

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