ssh store default username/login_name per host? [solved]

[Oo.et.oO]

Hi all,
I recently discovered pageant in windows as the key auth agent for putty. it also lets you save all sorts of stuff in a "session" for later use for logging into various hosts with various settings. one thing it saves is user/login_name.

i have a few hosts with really strange login names. sometimes i can't remember them. is there a way i can store them somewhere in .ssh for automatic use when sshing to those servers? i have key auth working great on them, i just have to remember my remote login name..

thanks

[tony-curtis]

in .ssh/config you can add entries such as

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Host some.host.name.or.pattern
  User zvcdf12345

[Oo.et.oO]

thanks that works as expected. i just couldn't find it in the ssh manual nor online quickly.