Posts Tagged ‘Remote Access’

Unlike Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH) encrypts the connection between the remotely connected hosts and doesnt trransfer your password in plain text. As such SSH is more secure and must be used for remote connections. In this post I will install, configure and connect 2 computers running Ubuntu and CentOS. The connection will be tested with a password-based authentication followed by using public and private key pairs to establish trust between the hosts.

To start this trial, install OpenSSH server and client to Ubuntu using:
P.S. make sure you login as root when required.

apt-get install openssh-client
apt-get install openssh-server

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