Sure you can, so long as your local username IS the same as your
remote username, in which case its just ssh some.host.or.ip . This
won't probably work from a windoez system though (but maybe via cygwin
etc).

But IS good practice to include one, and  NOT good practice to have
the same account name all over the place =), so this factoid may be a
moot one.

Ben


On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:32 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com
> <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>
>> You can't get anywhere without a username:
>> ssh <username>@<IP address>
>> ET
>>
>>
>> Michael Havens writes:
>>>
>>> well... yeah. I knew that. I was really asking how one did that. I mean
>>> like do you drop the user name and it would be '<source_ip>:thatfile this
>>> file' or 'thisfile <destination_ip>:that file'.
>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:25 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <
>>> kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Michael, "names" on a network are fake.
>>>> There are only IP address in a network .
>>>> You "translate a name" into its corresponding IP address via a "name
>>>> resolution service"
>>>> A "name resolution service" can be as simple as an /etc/hosts file or as
>>>> complex as a full blown self-replicating/redundant name server (like
>>>> bind).
>>>> At the end, EVERYTHING goes via an IP address, so your question might
>>>> actually work in reverse:
>>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering.... could you do this via NAMEs?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, assuming that the name can be translated via some "name resolution
>>>> service"
>>>> ET
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Michael Havens writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering.... could you do this via ipaddress?
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:01 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <
>>>>> kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, scp (like cp) will copy back or forth, the 2 commands below are
>>>>>> legal:
>>>>>> scp myuser@remotebox:/that/file /this/path
>>>>>> scp /this/path myuser@remotebox:/that/file
>>>>>> 1st one will 'retrieve' /that/file from 'remotebox' into /this/path
>>>>>> 2nd one will copy /this/path to /that/file in 'remotebox'.
>>>>>> ET
>>>>>> joe@actionline.com writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is interesting.  Does this really mean that
>>>>>>> scp in reverse is possible by using a similar syntax
>>>>>>> with the dot at the end to extract a file from a remote
>>>>>>> computer to my local computer?
>>>>>>> -----------------
>>>>>>> Mike Ballon wrote (in part) ... scp in reverse:
>>>>>>> scp 192.168.0.4:Pictures/2009-****Move.from.Florida .
>>>>>>> I'm guessing the path of the pictures and take note of the dot at the
>>>>>>> end
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