A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

18. OpenSSH: Secure Network Communication

In This Chapter

Introduction to OpenSSH 674

Running the ssh, scp, and sftp OpenSSH Clients 677

JumpStart: Using ssh and scp to Connect to an OpenSSH Server 677

Setting Up an OpenSSH Server (sshd) 688

JumpStart: Starting an OpenSSH Server 688

Authorized Keys: Automatic Login 689

Troubleshooting 695

Tunneling/Port Forwarding 696

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• Explain the need for encrypted services

• Log in on a remote OpenSSH server system using ssh

• Copy files and directories to and from a remote system securely

• Set up an OpenSSH server

• Configure OpenSSH server options

• Set up a client/server so you do not need to use a password to log in using ssh or scp

• Enable ...