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Reputation: 751

How to change the default user name for shell in Mac OS

I have my Mac setup with username XXX. And when I do my job, I need to ssh/scp to a remote server with username YYY (I use iTerm 2 and bash shell).

It's really annoying to specify the username YYY@hostname each time I login to the workstation, since the YYY is long (12 characters).

Is there any solution to change/specify the default user name from XXX to YYY of the shell, without changing my Mac username?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8073

Answers (1)

Mark Setchell
Mark Setchell

Reputation: 207708

Edit the file $HOME/.ssh/config, and add something like this:

Host HOSTNAME
  User YYY

Replace all the upper case parts. Now you can just do ssh HOSTNAME and it will use YYY as the username.

To have this apply to all hosts that you use with SSH, you can do:

Host *
  User YYY

And also, if you want to specify a shortened hostname with the ssh command, you can:

Host YOUR-NAME-FOR-THE-HOST
  HostName ACTUAL-LONG-HOSTNAME-WITH-DOMAIN-NAME
  User YYY

Then you can just run ssh YOUR-NAME-FOR-THE-HOST and it will connect to the full hostname you specified.

Upvotes: 4

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