On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > With a nonstandard port you do have to remember to use the -p parameter > > of ssh to connect (and the -P parameter of scp) but in my opinion it's > > worth it. > Oooh I'm going to make your day then... I used -p / -P for a long while > without complaint. Then I discovered one can set up a two line stanza > per server in the client side ~/.ssh/config: Thanks for the pointer; I hadn't done that as yet. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu