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12 AristotlePagaltzis 1 An [Acronym] for __S__ecure __Sh__ell.
8 JohnMcPherson 2
13 AristotlePagaltzis 3 A tool provides strongly encrypted / authenticated communications. It is mainly used to provide shell access on remote systems but also has a lot more to offer – an attractive replacement for less secure access methods like rsh(1) and telnet(1).
12 AristotlePagaltzis 4
13 AristotlePagaltzis 5 The original and subsequent versions of [SSH] were released under more-and-more restrictive licenses until it was deemed to be non-[Free], so the [OpenSSH] [Fork] was started with the last “good” [Free] version (which remains under the [BSDLicense]). These days, [OpenSSH] is the version used in [Linux] and [BSD] distributions, although it is merely called [SSH]. There’s now also a mildly popular alternative implementation under the ægis of the [GNU] project, called [LSH | http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/lsh/].
1 CraigMckenna 6
4 AristotlePagaltzis 7 See also:
8 * [SSHNotes]
6 AristotlePagaltzis 9 * [SSHErrors]
7 CraigBox 10 * [SSHKeys], and for a discussion of how they work, PublicKeyAuthentication
4 AristotlePagaltzis 11 * [SCP]
12 * ssh(1)
13 * scp(1)
9 StuartYeates 14
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10 JohnMcPherson 16 CategoryNetworking, CategorySecurity