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SSH (Secure Shell)

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SSH(Secure Shell) is a program that allows you to send information to a remote machine in a more secure fashion. It provides strong authentication and secure communications over unsecure channels. Network Engineering encourages the use of SSH over traditional services like: Telnet, rsh, rlogin, ftp, etc..

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• SSH Clients
• Putty - A free Windows SSH client (download)
• Cygwin - Contains a pre-compiled OpenSSH client. Available on OSUware
• OpenSSH - An opensource SSH implementation (Unix systems)
• Nifty SSH - A free Macintosh implementation
• Mac OS X Users - Mac OS X Contains a builtin SSH client
• SSH Documentation
• PuTTY User Manual
• Compiling OpenSSH on a generic UNIX system
• Windows SSH Client(SSH.com) Profile Setup Instructions
• Windows SSH Client(SSH.com) Client Usage

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Open SSH Unix Compile Instructions

• Download the source code: Here: OpenSSH Distribution site
• su or su2 to root [become root]
• Copy the file onto your /usr/local/src directory
• Extract the file while located in /usr/local/src
  gzip format example: gunzip -c openssh-3.7.1p2.tar.gz | tar xv
• Move into the /usr/local/src/openssh-3.7.1p2/ directory
  Note the directory might be a different name
• type ./configure - If this command fails you may be missing some make and compilation tools.
• type make
• type make install