[ssh] Best way to use multiple SSH private keys on one client

The answer from Randal Schwartz almost helped me all the way. I have a different username on the server, so I had to add the User keyword to my file:

Host           friendly-name
HostName       long.and.cumbersome.server.name
IdentityFile   ~/.ssh/private_ssh_file
User           username-on-remote-machine

Now you can connect using the friendly-name:

ssh friendly-name

More keywords can be found on the OpenSSH man page. NOTE: Some of the keywords listed might already be present in your /etc/ssh/ssh_config file.

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