SSH Config¶

You can now store some of the access details for your FortiGate appliacnes inside the ~/.ssh/config of the user. Currently supported:

Example 1¶

Simple “alias” whereas you would use the ‘hostname’ “fortigate” inside your scripts instead of the IP address. Handy if you do not have a DNS server:

Host fortigate
  Hostname 192.168.1.1
  User admin

A bit more complex for when you need go via a SSH proxy server to reach the appliance:

Host fortigate
  Hostname 192.168.1.1
  User admin
  ProxyCommand ssh user@10.10.10.1 nc %h %p