Secure Shell

From Hpcdoc

ssh

An SSH client (ssh) is the required tool to connect to our facilities. An SSH client provides secure encrypted communications between two hosts over an insecure network.

This page contains some links for SSH clients and how to use it.

If you already have ssh installed on your UNIX-like system, have a user account and password, login may be as easy as typing:

ssh [machine name]

into a terminal window. If your user name on the machine differs from your user name on the local machine, use the -l (lowercase L) option to specify the user name on the machine to which you want to connect. For example:

ssh [machine name] -l [user name]

scp/sftp

Files can be transferred securely with scp or sftp. Scp works similar to normal cp. Sftp work similar to normal ftp. Type man sftp for a list of the interactive commands within sftp or man scp for scp examples.

Suitable ssh- and sftp clients

Clients for MS Windows

• Several Windows clients for ssh/sftp can be found here and here
• FileZilla
• Putty: A Free, easy to use Win32 Telnet/SSH Client
• ZOC from EmTec
• SecureCRT from van Dyke

Clients for Macintosh

• NiftyTelnet with SSH

Clients for JAVA

• MindTerm

Links to pages about secure shell

• Getting started with SSH
• Kimmo Suominen's introduction to SSH
• Secure port forwarding with SSH