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-The easiest way to gain access the Computer Science Dept. Unix machines outside of the computer lab. This gives you terminal access to the command line inside the department, and it allows you to send files back and forth to your home directory. Since it has no remote GUI, it is much faster than VNC. The simplest way of doing this is opening a terminal on a Mac or Linux machine and typing ssh username@mote33.cs.vassar.edu, or using PuTTY on Windows. +The easiest way to gain access the Computer Science Dept. Linux machines outside of the Asprey computer lab. This gives you terminal access to the command line inside the department, and it allows you to send files back and forth to your home directory. Since it has no remote GUI, it is much faster than VNC. The simplest way of doing this is opening a terminal on a Mac or Linux machine and typing ssh username@mote.cs.vassar.edu, or using PuTTY on Windows.
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-/* //(from http://freessh.org)(broken)// "SSH (secure shell) is a internet protocol that allows a user to connect to a remote host via an encrypted link. " */+
  
 <quote Wikipedia>Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client.</quote> <quote Wikipedia>Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client.</quote>
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   * **ssh** A replacement for telnet. Allows you to "Log in" and have an interactive text connection to another computer.    * **ssh** A replacement for telnet. Allows you to "Log in" and have an interactive text connection to another computer. 
   * **scp** A replacement for rcp. Using scp, you can quickly copy files between computers over a network securely.   * **scp** A replacement for rcp. Using scp, you can quickly copy files between computers over a network securely.
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   * **sftp** A replacement for ftp. Ftp, the file transfer protocol, has traditionally been used to browse file systems for download, and optionally allowing uploading to the server.   * **sftp** A replacement for ftp. Ftp, the file transfer protocol, has traditionally been used to browse file systems for download, and optionally allowing uploading to the server.
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 Instructions for installing and using these programs are given according to the operating system on your computer. Instructions for installing and using these programs are given according to the operating system on your computer.
  
 +  * [[help:general_linux:windows|Windows]]
   * [[help:general_linux::filecopy|Mac OS X, Unix, and Linux]]   * [[help:general_linux::filecopy|Mac OS X, Unix, and Linux]]
-  * [[sysnews:ssh:windows|Windows]]+
  
  
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 ===== More information ===== ===== More information =====
  
-To find out more about ssh, try visiting http://www.openssh.org. Also, the ssh-faq at http://www.employees.org/~satch/ssh/faq/ssh-faq.html covers a lot of common ssh questions.+To find out more about ssh:  
 +   * http://www.openssh.org.   
 +   * http://www.employees.org/~satch/ssh/faq/ssh-faq.html (covers a lot of common ssh questions.)