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SSH, or secure shell, is a Unix shell used for secure communication between two networked computers. You may wish to securely download files from a remote system ...

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Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard "ssh" command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a terminal prompt that you can use to run ...

I'm logging into my OpenBSD box from my Slackware box and I want to copy some files from that box to the Linux box I'm on. What is the command to do that? I've tried rcp and scp but I can't seem to ...

Tools like scp, sftp and rsync allow us to copy files easily and securely between these accounts. But, what if we don't want to copy the files to our local system before using them? Normally, this ...

I work remotely on my University work from home. I SSH into the University's Solaris machines. One cool thing I've found is that when using Linux and using the command "xemacs file" it actually opens ...

Secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) is a safe way to transfer files between hosts over the internet. While PowerShell does not offer built-in support for SFTP, you can add this functionality using ...

If you have more than one Linux computer, you probably use ssh all the time. It is a great tool, but I’ve always found one thing about it strange. Despite having file transfer capabilities in the form ...

It's a great NAS with great hardware, but the lack of SSH access is frustrating.