I’ve already posted about how to create key pairs fo SSH elsehere.
This is a short listing of the ~/.ssh/config file used for Git:
Host goob HostName buildbot1.snipanet.com User droidzone IdentityFile ~/.ssh/privatekey_goo ServerAliveInterval 30 ServerAliveCountMax 120 Host goo HostName upload.goo.com User droidzone IdentityFile ~/.ssh/privatekey_goo ServerAliveInterval 120 ServerAliveCountMax 120 Port 2222 Host xda HostName build1.dev.xda-developers.com User droidzone IdentityFile ~/.ssh/xdamachine_key_openssh_pvt ServerAliveInterval 30 ServerAliveCountMax 120 Host sf HostName shell.sourceforge.net User droidzone IdentityFile ~/.ssh/privatekey_sourceforge_ssh ServerAliveInterval 30 ServerAliveCountMax 120 Host bitbucket.org IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bitbucket
Anatomy of a config file
A config file should be named ~/.ssh/config
The permissions of each key referred to by ssh should be restricted to user only, i.e chmod go=
The “Host” value is an alias
The “Hostname” value should be an ip or actual resolvable hostname
If Port is not 22, it should be specified in the file.
If the hostname is correct, you can login to sourceforge by typing: ssh sf
The username, hostname, key, port will be determined from the file.