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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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+The original and subsequent versions of [SSH] wer 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.
See also:
* [SSHNotes]
* [SSHErrors]
* [SSHKeys], and for a discussion of how they work, PublicKeyAuthentication
* [SCP]
* ssh(1)
* scp(1)
