Being very used to killing telnet connections with Ctrl+] (or ^]) then quit, I wanted a simpler method with SSH.

Basically what this is for is, lets say your remote shell has hung up on you. Normally what I would do is open another shell and kill the process. This is obviously a pain to keep doing.

A quick bit of googling and I found this:
http://www.theclonchs.com/wiki/SSHBreak

You can either edit the global ssh_config as the example in that URL says (/etc/ssh/ssh_config) or in the local user configuration (~/.ssh/config).

So to test that you have it working properly do:


So I typed Enter ~. and it quit. No more hung ssh connections! YAY

Cool tip znx