Linux Administration Cookbook

Logging in from the host Terminal

Because using the VirtualBox interface is somewhat cumbersome (making things such as copy and paste tricky), it makes sense that there's a more elegant way to connect and interact with our machine.

Secure Shell (SSH) is the tool we're going to use for this, as it provides a fast and secure way of connecting to remote machines.

Native SSH clients are available for macOS and all Linux distributions. Windows has made some progress in the area too, though I'm to understand that the easiest way of using SSH on Windows is still to download a program called PuTTY.

Think of SSH as a Windows Remote Desktop Protocol. If you're new to this world, only it's generally faster to use, owing to the fact it's not got to ...