December 2005
Beginner
974 pages
31h 50m
English
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Remote Logins and Command Execution
You are probably connected to a network, either within your own home or office, or through dial-up to the Internet. Sometimes you want to log in to another system, or copy a file to or from another system.
If you need help setting up networking, check Chapter 13 and the following chapters. In this section we assume you are on the network already. If you can view a web page in a browser, you're connected and can carry out the commands in this section. We'll use a package called SSH that's installed on most, if not all, Linux distributions.
SSH stands for Secure Shell, and denotes the project developers' focus on protecting your communications from snooping and hijacking. SSH has become an extremely respected and popular protocol for communicating between systems, and is supported on many different types of systems, such as the Putty graphical interface for Windows (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty).
Linux uses OpenSSH, a free software implementation (http://www.openssh.com). It rarely has bugs (although one will turn up once in a while, so for security reasons you should keep up with your distribution's updates), and it supports the latest standard, SSH protocol version 2. If you decide to do some heavy internetworking with SSH, you can get quite deep into it through SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly).
This section lays out the four or five commands you'll use most often. Suppose you have an account named mdw on ...
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