9 Cool SSH Tricks You May Not Know

If you are running a website, even if it is a blog, chances are, you might have used SSH at least once. SSH stands for Secure SHell. When you use SSH, the communication and data transfer between the local machine and the remote machine occurs in a secure encrypted tunnel. So no one will be able to snoop on your data.
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SSH tutorial for Linux

SSH stands for Secure SHell. This is similar to telnet but with the difference that while telnet sends all your data including your password as plain text across the network, SSH sends everything in encrypted format. This means that it is well impossible to snoop at your data or passwords while it is in transit across the Internet or network.

Over a period of time, I have written a couple of articles on this blog related to SSH. Today I came across a very well written tutorial on using SSH by Mark Krenz. He explains the concept of SSH, generating public private encryption keys, forwarding an X11 session on top of SSH, TCP forwarding, SOCKS5 proxying and so on. A very good article worth spending ones time to read.

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