Have you ever avoided checking your email over that free wireless access point for fear of someone snarfing your password? Secure, trusted networks aren't always available, so today we'll show you how ...

The Android ConnectBot application is an SSH client for Android devices. The app can be downloaded from the Android Market, and it allows a user to secure-shell into a Linux environment. Because ...

Most IT pros realize that using Telnet to manage routers, switches, and firewalls is insecure. Transmitted in clear text across a network, Telnet traffic basically publicizes any login usernames and ...

If you connect to remote computers over the Internet, it is a pretty good chance you use some form of SSH or secure shell. On Linux or Unix you’ll use the ssh command. Same goes for Linux-like ...

Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard "ssh" command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a terminal prompt that you can use to run ...

I'm working on some scripts that execute on various servers, and I'm trying to consolidate them into one. The problem is that I need to run remote commands but can't ...

If shutting off telnet access and insisting that all system-to-system connections use ssh isn’t enough to toughen your system’s hide, here’s another way to make your servers just a little more ...

One of the things ssh can do is execute a command on a remote server. Most of us expect it to work transparently when doing so, simply passing the command and its arguments on without any surprises in ...

Need a way to make connecting to lots of servers using different settings and usernames easier? Look no further than the ssh config file. I rely on ssh for connecting to dozens of servers. The problem ...

I have two Cisco Catalyst 2960-S 48-port switches "stacked" using the Cisco FlexStack module. Originally I had to set them up using "Express Setup", which I absolutly hate from my limited use of it. I ...