Re: login fails

[Myron Selby]

Kai,

You sir are a genius and a life saver. This works perfectly now.

Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Myron

Kai Grossjohann wrote:

> Myron Selby <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  
>
> > It sounds like there is nothing I can do about this. Don't other people use
> > ssh to access remotes? They must be running into the same problem.
> >    
>
> I think specifying the port in the filename is rather unusual, this
> would explain why others haven't seen the problem.
>
> It now occurs to me that you can also specify the port in the ssh
> configuration.  For example, consider the following ~/.ssh/config
> snippet:
>
> Host foo
>    HostName foobar.somedomain.tld
>    Port 4711
>
> Then, specifying "foo" as the hostname will cause ssh to contact the
> host foobar.somedomain.tld on port 4711.
>
> Does this help, as a workaround?
>
> Kai
>