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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).

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]
* [SSHKeys], and for a discussion of how they work, PublicKeyAuthentication
* [SCP]
* ssh(1)
* scp(1)

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Last edited on Saturday, April 22, 2006 3:25:36 pm by AristotlePagaltzis

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