ssh connections

One feature telnet has and I always missed from ssh was the ^] shortcut, giving you a way to terminate the connection.

ssh has a similar feature.

If you setup 'escape characters', you can terminate the connection by typing '~.' Just add the following to your .ssh/config:

1. Host *
2. EscapeChar ~

You can change the character here too, but ~ is the default and a sensible one.

Ghacks: "Sure you can create bash aliases to make these connections easier to remember, but if you can have a GUI tool to handle this wouldn't ssh administration be so much easier?

Well, you're in luck. SecPanel is such a tool"

I like to open a lot of tabs in my terminal (konsole) window: a few standard shells, a couple of su shells, and some ssh connections to other systems that I access regularly.

KDE can remember some of these settings via its session capability, but it doesn't always remember everything I want, and sometimes it remembers things I wish it would forget.

So, to get my standard tabs, I use DCOP to start what I want when I want it.

If you run a lot of terminal tabs or scripts that all need to make OpenSSH connections to the same server, you can speed them all up with multiplexing: making the first one act as the master and letting the others share its TCP connection to the server.

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