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tags: [ ssh ]
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# To ssh via pem file (which normally needs 0600 permissions):
ssh -i  @

# To connect on a non-standard port:
ssh -p  @

# To connect and forward the authentication agent:
ssh -A @

# To execute a command on a remote server:
ssh -t @ 'the-remote-command'

# To connect to a host with a specific key exchange algorithm:
# Full list of available algorithms : man ssh_config
ssh -oKeXAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 @

# To tunnel an x session over SSH:
ssh -X @

# Redirect traffic with a tunnel between local host (port 8080) and a remote
# host (remote.example.com:5000) through a proxy (personal.server.com):
ssh -f -L 8080:remote.example.com:5000 [email protected] -N

# To launch a specific x application over SSH:
ssh -X -t @ 'chromium-browser'

# To create a SOCKS proxy on localhost and :
ssh -qND  @

# To tunnel an ssh session over the SOCKS proxy on localhost and port 9999:
ssh -o "ProxyCommand nc -x 127.0.0.1:9999 -X 4 %h %p" @

# -X use an xsession, -C compress data, "-c blowfish" use the encryption blowfish:
ssh @ -C -c blowfish -X

# For more information, see:
# http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/12755/44856

# To copy files and folders through ssh from remote host to pwd with tar.gz
# compression when there is no rsync command available:
ssh @ "cd /var/www/Shared/; tar zcf - asset1 asset2" | tar zxf -

# To mount folder/filesystem through SSH
# Install SSHFS from https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
# Will allow you to mount a folder securely over a network.
sshfs @:/path/to/folder /path/to/mount/point

# Emacs can read file through SSH
# Doc: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Files.html
emacs /ssh:@: