What is SSH ?

SSH or Secure Shell is a suite of programs which provide encryption of sessions between computers. It is a secure replacement for telnet, rlogin, rsh and rcp. The encryption begins before the username/password conversation starts thus providing a mechanism for no plain text passwords traveling over the intra/internet. Secure Shell also provides a better means of authenticating host computers helping to prevent address spoofing attacks. The main features of SSH include secure remote logins, terminal emulation, fully integrated secure file transfers, and secure tunneling of X11 traffic.

SSH Clients

SSH clients exist for all common architectures and operating systems. Some are free, some are shareware or commercial versions.

SSH Clients for Unix/Linux

* OpenSSH is an SSH v1.x and v2.x compliant SSH package that is freely usable and re-usable by everyone under a BSD license.

With Dedicated Servers you get full root ssh access. You have complete control over the server administration and specifications.

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