While doing some research for a presentation on SSH for LPI 102 training, I came across this great introduction to SSH, or secure Shell, and thought that since we use it here at Rider, you might like to know about it. Great links and content.
“How to use SSH
The following tutorial should help you in using Secure Shell to and from our workstations and servers.ssh is a replacement for telnet, rlogin, rsh, rexec and ftp. Over the years, more and more features were implemented and these give you many more possibilities than the old tools.
The first ssh-daemons and clients were written around 1993 to manage Linux, UNIX and BSD systems over the internet. ssh has two attributes: It should be maximal secure and simple to use. The security of ssh should not stop you from doing your job – even more, it should help you to work easier.”