On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Buck wrote: > I have seen SSH referred to in several postings on the listservs. > Is that what I want to study?
Yes. Turn on the sshd service, ssh is great. It stands for "secure shell", in its most common use, where one might have typed "telnet someserver.com" to do a text login, the smarter thing would be to type "ssh someserver.com" and do an encrypted login. At that point you have a text prompt and can do all those text-based things, and not even worry about someone listening in on your wireless connection. But ssh gets better. Once you are logged in over an ssh connection you can do X Windows graphical stuff where you run the program on the remote machine but the windows and buttons and all appear on the machine you are sitting at. (This can be slow over a slow connection.) And you can tunnel anything over an excrypted ssh link. You can consider that ssh includes sftp (secure ftp) and scp (secure copy). rsync is a great way to copy multiple files from one machine to another, and it can do all its work over an ssh connection. For unattended operations ssh can authenticate with a key file instead of requiring a typed password. If you really need to see the base screen and operate upon icons on the desktop, use the Redhat menu, etc., you can use VNC (Virtual Network Computing), do a man page on vncviewer and vncserver--but you want to run your VNC session over an ssh tunnel. So yes, go learn a lot of stuff (learning is fun) and make sure ssh is on the list. -kb P.S. ssh is a more complex protocol than telnet and so uses more more complicated software. This means it is more likely than simpler software to have bugs, and some of those bugs will be security bugs. Keep your software--including ssh--up to date. ssh has had some security recently, you want them. Lots of smart, paranoid, and careful use ssh and depend upon it for security, but they keep it up to date. Keep it up to date. Give it more time and I think they will stop finding bugs, but not yet. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
