Chapter 9. Solutions in this chapter:

  • Installing OpenSSH Server
  • Controlling Your SSH Server
  • Configuring SSH to Ease Your Paranoia
  • Using SSH
  • Additional Avenues of Approach
  • Summary
  • Solutions Fast Track
  • Frequently Asked Questions

Introduction

In this chapter, we want to explore some of the aspects of using SSH on Linux. We want to look at how to install it, how to configure it, and what are some of the features that it provides. With its strong authentication and tight encryption, there are a wide variety of tasks that we can use it for when working with communication between machines.

With a number of products on the market, we want to pick one for our examples that is well known in the Open Source community. We also want to make sure that ...

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