February 2016
Beginner
167 pages
3h 29m
English
Every time you connect to another Mac to share files or other system resources, you are, in a way, logging in to that other Mac. However, in this chapter, I describe a particular way of logging in to a remote computer—doing so using SSH (secure shell), which gives you access to the other computer’s command-line interface from within your own Mac’s command-line interface. Logging in via SSH lets you interact with another computer in the same way you interact with your current Mac from inside a Terminal window.
You can connect to almost any Mac, Unix, or Unix-like computer (and some Windows computers) using SSH, provided the other computer has SSH enabled. (To enable incoming SSH access on a Mac, check the Remote Login ...