May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
21h 5m
English
book
SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
by Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. Byrnes
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Basic Client Use
Once you’ve installed the program, it’s time to set up a new session, which is SecureCRT’s word for a collection of settings. Choose “Quick Connect...” from the File menu, and in the window that appears (see Figure 17-1), enter the following information:
- Protocol
Select ssh2 for the SSH-2 protocol.
- Hostname
Enter the hostname of the remote SSH server, such as server.example.com.
- Port
Leave it at the default port number, 22, unless your server uses a nonstandard port.
- Username
Enter your username on the remote machine.
- Authentication
Select Password, unless you have another method set up already.
Also put a checkmark in the “Save session” checkbox if you plan to return to this SSH server regularly.
Now click the Connect button. You should be prompted for your login password on the remote machine, and then you’ll be logged in via SSH. SecureCRT operates just like a normal terminal program. SSH’s end-to-end encryption is transparent to the user, as it should be.