SSH Wrapper Script

by Tony Mattke on November 30, 2008

Ok — this is my first script that I’m posting here. Its a VERY simple ssh wrapper script that you can place in your path, preferably in ~/bin

#!/bin/bash
SSH="/usr/bin/ssh"

case "$*" in
 *'@'*)     $SSH $* ;;
 *' -l'*)     $SSH $* ;;
 *)         $SSH -l root $* ;;
 esac

What this allows us to do is ssh as root to another box w/o specifying a user. Very handy if you spend your life in a terminal as I do. This could also be easily modifed for use with SCP or anything you wish…

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