How to set default username for SSH hosts

One day I got tired of entering

ssh mycoolusername@my.awesome.server.com

Because my username is the same on all the servers. So, what I did – I’ve created a file and added a default username for the servers:

$ cat ~/.ssh/config
CanonicalizeHostname yes
Host *.my.awesome.server.com
User mycoolusername


So, I can now connect to is.it.really.my.awesome.server.com by using: ssh is.it.really.my.awesome.server.com

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