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Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 12:19:18 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
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Subject: Re: Changing the default user for an ssh login
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Gregg C Levine wrote:

> I have a question. How can I change the default user of the Cygwin
> version of SSH from my login name to that of the host that I am going
> to be logging into?
> 
> In this case it is a Linux box, and the user is root. Examining the
> man page for this version of SSH did not prove to be enlightening.

Try "man ssh_config".  There you can supply global defaults and per-host
overrides for most parameters, including user login name.

Brian

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