SSH
Short for Secure Shell, SSH was developed by SSH Communications Security Ltd. and is a secure protocol for remote logins. Using a SSH client a user can connect to a SSH server to transfer information in a more secure method than telnet.
In the image to the right, is an example of what a SSH session may look like. As can be seen from the example to the right a SSH session is a command line interface.
- See the Linux slogin command for further information about the Linux / Unix OpenSSH remote login command.
- See the Linux scp command for further information about secure file copying.
- A great free SSH client is PuTTY.
Also see: Network definitions, Protocol, Pty, PuTTY, rlogin, rsh, Security definitions, slogin