Screen is useful tool but it does have some slight bugs such as when you use the SU command to switch to another user and attempt to use screen you will most probably receive a error message similar to the following. (more…)
Tag: shell
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Creating an SSH connection using password authentication
SSH is a secure shell command line technology allowing a user to connect to a second computer and perform many tasks securely. I have written a post which is found here which tells out all about the SSH technology. In this post I am showing you how to connect to a SSH server in Windows and Linux operating systems using password authentication, if you are using public/private key authentication please read this post. I would recommend everyone to use public/private key authentication because it increases security dramatically, a SSH client can on connect to the server if they have the correct private key and a private key can be encrypted using a password increasing security even further. (more…)
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What is SSH (secure shell)?
SSH short for secure shell is a network protocol allowing communications between two computers, it is natively found on Linux based operating systems and used to remotely control computers and server via a command line interface. SSH was created to replace older insecure software such as telnet, telnet lacked encryption allowing anyone to intercept the data transfer. For example it was possible someone could steal the username and password used which would give them remote access to the system. (more…)