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Re:Shuttle - A simple SSH shortcut menu for OS X by schrodingersCat on Thursday July 11, 2013 @08:42AM (#6025664)
They said the purpose of using a .json file was so that your configuration could be synced by dropbox or some other cloud service. I would NOT put my .ssh with all my private keys on dropbox.
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Re:Shuttle - A simple SSH shortcut menu for OS X by eieio on Thursday July 11, 2013 @08:56AM (#6025725)
You could just make ~/.ssh/config a symlink to your config file in your dropbox folder. No need to put private keys on dropbox.
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Re:Shuttle - A simple SSH shortcut menu for OS X by thejosh on Thursday July 11, 2013 @09:25AM (#6025854)
Yep.

Symlink'ing a ssh config file with Dropbox was the best decision I've made in a long time.

Same config file no matter which PC I am using, and you can always look up the IP/Hostname and which key it uses (don't store keys on dropbox for "critical" systems) through the dropbox web interface.

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Re:Shuttle - A simple SSH shortcut menu for OS X by schrodingersCat on Thursday July 11, 2013 @09:26AM (#6025860)
I agree, this would make a lot more sense...
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