Chapter 11. Use Remote Connectivity for System Managment

This chapter covers the following topics:

SSH (Secure Shell)

Executing commands as another user

The exam objectives covered in this chapter are as follows:

Objective 2.4: Given a scenario, configure and execute remote connectivity for system management

Use to be that you could just move your chair and work on a server system, way back in the day, but so very quickly that changed to having all the servers in the server room somehwere else, and not wanting to walk there, or even being in the location or even city or country as the servers!

Having grown up in computing when Telnet (an unsecure remote connectivity option the preceded SSH) and clear-text FTP was commonplace, the world was a ...

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