From the course: Linux System Engineer: Networking and SSH
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Configure SSH clients
From the course: Linux System Engineer: Networking and SSH
Configure SSH clients
- [Instructor] SSH has many options including which ciphers to use, which host a client can connect to, and how it operates. However, usually a client configuration uses the defaults and is much easier to work with than the SSH server configuration. There are three ways of passing configuration options to the SSH claim. They're processed in the following order. Command-line options, the per user configuration file stored in the user's home directory, and lastly, the system-wide configuration at slash, etc, slash, SSH, slash, SSH, underscore config. For each parameter the first value will be used so any options specified on the command line override the configuration files. Any option the user's configuration file overrides the system-wide configuration file. Let's start by looking at our system-wide configuration file. Later in this chapter we'll talk about the per user configuration as well. Let's load the system-wide configuration file into less. In a terminal type in less, space…
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