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Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal, 2nd Edition
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Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal, 2nd Edition

by Joe Kissell
February 2016
Beginner content levelBeginner
167 pages
3h 29m
English
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Log In to Another Computer

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 ...

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ISBN: 9781457191107