Terminal: Stored Remote Connection with non-standard Port?

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Terminal: Stored Remote Connection with non-standard Port?

Hi,

I am new to MacOS and I am amazed by the integrated terminal. However, I sometimes need to connect to servers which use a non-standard SSH port, for example, 2020. I know that I can manually connect, but for convinience, I'd like to have a saved remote connection including the non-standard port. Is this possible somehow?

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Felicitus

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Mar 10, 2010 1:04 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 10, 2010 3:15 AM in response to Felicitus

Sure. Just make a shell script that does what you want. For example ...

echo "ssh myserver.here.com 50" > my_script
chmod 700 my_script
./my_script

The first line creates the script into a file called "my_script"
The second line gives that file read, write, and execute permissions.
The third line executes it.

This is standard Unix stuff.

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Felicitus Author

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Mar 10, 2010 5:35 AM in response to Felicitus

It's actually ssh <ip> -p <port>, separating with spaces doesn't work as the SSH binary take the command after the space.

I know that it is possible to create shell script, but that's not what I wanted. I wish to keep all stored connections within the menu "remote connections".

If you open up the window "New Remote Connection", you see the actual SSH command at the bottom text field. Unfortunately it seems that the Terminal doesn't remember any changes to the text field, and I was asking if it is possible to have that saved somehow.

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BobHarris

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Mar 10, 2010 7:22 AM in response to Felicitus

I use iTerm which allows me to be more creative with my remote connection bookmarks, including associating hotkeys for new connection.
<http://iterm.sourceforge.net/>

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BobHarris

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Mar 10, 2010 7:32 AM in response to Felicitus

I did some experimentation, using Terminal.

Terminal -> New Remote Connection -> Service -> [+]

now enter your own new service which includes


/usr/bin/ssh -p 50022

I found I had to enter a bonjour entry to get it to accept my new service, but once I did, I was able to use that new service with the custom -p 50022 port value.

Your mileage may vary. I still prefer iTerm.

Oh yea. In the future, Terminal and Unix oriented questions are better asked in the Mac OS X Technologies > Unix Forum
<http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735>

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