Applications of SSH

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SSH (Secure Shell) is an encrypted network protocol. It has many useful applications that solve all kinds of communication and security problems.

Contents 1 Secure Shell 2 File Transfer Using SCP 3 SSH Tunneling 4 See Also 5 References 6 External Links

Secure Shell

The most obvious use for SSH is to allow remote machines to access a shell on the host computer. The host machine must be running an SSH Daemon (sshd) which usually runs on port 22. The remote machine must use an SSH client to connect to the host. On Unix based systems, the command "ssh hostname" will connect to the host specified by hostname with the same username as the user running the command. Alternatively, the user can type "ssh username@hostname" to log in as a different user. In either case, the user will usually be asked to enter the password for the specified user on the host.

File Transfer Using SCP

SSH Tunneling

See Also

References

External Links

PuTTY - A free Telnet/SSH client WinSCP - A free SCP/SFTP client for Windows Xming - A free X server for Windows Cygwin - A linux like environment for Windows that contains an SSH package and an X server OpenSSH - Open source implementation of SSH