A suite of secure networking utilities based on Secure Shell Protocol (SSH), which provides secure communication in a Client-Server Architecture.

It can be configured via the file etc/ssh/sshd_config.

Authentication methods

OpenSSH can use the following authentication methods:

  • Password authentication
  • Public-key authentication
  • Host-based authentication
  • Keyboard authentication
  • Challenge-response authentication
  • GSSAPI authentication

Commands

ssh <user name>@<ip address>