1podman-machine-ssh(1) General Commands Manual podman-machine-ssh(1)
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6 podman-machine-ssh - SSH into a virtual machine
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10 podman machine ssh [options] [name] [command [arg ...]]
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14 SSH into a Podman-managed virtual machine and optionally execute a com‐
15 mand on the virtual machine. Unless using the default virtual machine,
16 the first argument must be the virtual machine name. The optional com‐
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39 Username to use when SSH-ing into the VM.
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67 Error: fork/exec /usr/bin/bogus: no such file or directory
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109 March 2021, Originally compiled by Ashley Cui acui@redhat.com
110 ⟨mailto:acui@redhat.com⟩
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