SSH is the descendant of rsh and rlogin, which are non-encrypted programs for remote shell logins. Rsh and rlogin, like telnet, have a long lineage but now are outdated and insecure. However, these ...

You can avoid command line tedium and simplify access to a fleet of servers by creating a flexible configuration file for your SSH client. Here’s how. This blog post covers how to configure the ...

When connecting to a system remotely using SSH (Secure Shell), usually you provide the SSH command string to log in to the system and then execute commands on the remote system using the current SSH ...

I'm working on some scripts that execute on various servers, and I'm trying to consolidate them into one. The problem is that I need to run remote commands but can't ...

How to set up passwordless SSH authentication for Ubuntu Server Your email has been sent You probably secure shell into your Linux servers throughout the day. Hopefully, you’ve set those servers up ...

If you connect to remote computers over the Internet, it is a pretty good chance you use some form of SSH or secure shell. On Linux or Unix you’ll use the ssh command. Same goes for Linux-like ...

It's story time here in the Paranoid Penguin. Don't worry—the story is a preface to the nuts-and-bolts sort of stuff you've come to expect in LJ. In fact, there are so many nuts and bolts to play with ...

The Android ConnectBot application is an SSH client for Android devices. The app can be downloaded from the Android Market, and it allows a user to secure-shell into a Linux environment. Because ...

If shutting off telnet access and insisting that all system-to-system connections use ssh isn’t enough to toughen your system’s hide, here’s another way to make your servers just a little more ...