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Perform basic OpenSSH 2 client configuration

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Perform basic OpenSSH 2 client configuration

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- 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 in the SSH server configuration. There are three ways of passing configuration options to the SSH client. 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 /etc/ssh/ssh_config For each parameter, the first value will be used. So any options specified on the command line override the configuration files. Any option in the users 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…

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