How to connect through sftp to a non-standard port on Midnight Commander?

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How to connect through sftp to a non-standard port on Midnight Commander?

In Midnight Commander one can make an SFTP connection to a remote machine using:

cd #sh:yourusername@example.com:/home/username/

How can this be done when the remote machine is using a non-standard port?

mc sftp

3 years ago by vishaljlf39

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**Bharatgxwzm** · Answer 1 · 2021-09-16T10:33:41

Whenever you want to use non-default settings for ssh, define an alias in ~/.ssh/config. This way you can ssh myalias, or have some application call ssh myalias under the hood, without having to worry as to how you're going to pass settings such as a non-default port, a different user name and so on.

Host foo

HostName example.com

Port 2222

User yourusername

Then in Midnight Commander: cd #sh:foo:

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How to connect through sftp to a non-standard port on Midnight Commander?

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