Shouldn't you have been able to use ssh_config (or more likely ~/.ssh/config)? AFAIK the ssh that comes with cygwin is OpenSSH as is the ssh in most other places, so you should be able to use the config file. 
Host myhost
  User differentuser
  Compression Yes
  Protocol 2
  Other_Options with_settings
It doesn't allow you to specify a RemoteCommand to run, but that seems like an odd feature. It is a kewl hack anyway, but there might be different ways to go about it.
--
andrew

In reply to Re: Cygwin/UNIX ssh connector with profiles by afresh1
in thread Cygwin/UNIX ssh connector with profiles by radiantmatrix

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