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-An [Acronym] for __S__ecure __Sh__ell, 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)
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+An [Acronym] for __S__ecure __Sh__ell.
-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 (and it
remains under the [BSDLicense]. These days, OpenSSH is the version used in [Linux] and [BSD] distributions, although it is merely called SSH.
+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).
+
+
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/]
.
See also:
* [SSHNotes]
* [SSHErrors]
