Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04, Eighth Edition

Chapter 17. Remote Access with SSH and Telnet

In This Chapter

• Setting Up a Telnet Server

• Telnet Versus SSH

• Setting Up an SSH Server

• The SSH Tools

• Virtual Network Computing

• References

Controlling your system remotely is one of the cooler things you can do with Ubuntu: With just a bit of configuration, you can connect from any Linux box to another computer in a variety of ways. If you just want to check something quickly or if you have limited bandwidth, you have the option of using only the command line, but you can also connect directly to the X server and get full graphical control.

Understanding the selection of tools available is largely a history lesson. For example, Telnet was an earlier way of connecting to another computer ...