SSH config file paragraph to open a specific directory on remote server [closed]

Answer 1

Take a look at https://serverfault.com/questions/167416/change-directory-automatically-on-ssh-login

This is the accepted answer:

LocalCommand isn't what you want, anyway. That's run on your machine. You want RemoteCommand. Something like this worked for me:

  Host example.net
  RemoteCommand cd / && exec bash --login
  RequestTTY yes

---

(Old answer) For a similar use case, ssh -t is also an option:

ssh server -t "cd /my/remote/directory; bash --login"

It is not the same, as it does not use ssh config. But you can define an alias for the command and end up with a similar effect.

Answer 2

In this post on ServerFault, they say you can't do it all through the ssh config file. But you can do it with the ssh config and your .bash_profile or whatever the terminal nerds call it. in the ssh config file add

Host dev
  Hostname server.com
  User joe

then in your .bash_profile add an alias

alias domain1="ssh dev -t 'cd domains/domain1; bash'"

Here the dev refers to what you set up in the config file.

In the Terminal, just type domain1, you will be asked to put in your password and will go straight to the directory. Make a new alias for all your domains and it will make logging in to each one super easy.