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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).
+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 (and it
remains under the [BSDLicense]. These days, [OpenSSH] is the version used in [Linux] and [BSD] distributions, although it is merely called [SSH].
+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]
