Re: ssh username environment variable

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

Chris Packham [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Just wondering if there is an environment variable I can use to tell
git or ssh what user name to use for the ssh transport?

No.  But you can hack around it:

  cat >$HOME/bin/git-ssh
  #!/bin/sh
  ssh -l $GIT_SSH_USER "$@"
  ^D

  GIT_SSH=$HOME/bin/git-ssh GIT_SSH_USER=myname git clone ...

I thought the standard answer was "use $HOME/.ssh/config", to set User
by keying on the remote hostname to which you are going.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Chris Packham [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Just wondering if there is an environment variable I can use to tell
git or ssh what user name to use for the ssh transport?

No.  But you can hack around it:

  cat >$HOME/bin/git-ssh
  #!/bin/sh
  ssh -l $GIT_SSH_USER "$@"
  ^D

  GIT_SSH=$HOME/bin/git-ssh GIT_SSH_USER=myname git clone ...

I thought the standard answer was "use $HOME/.ssh/config", to set User
by keying on the remote hostname to which you are going.

Yeah thats what I've done after reading a few more man pages.