Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux SSH

SSH stands for "secure shell". It allows you to securely access a shell (like the command line window you used earlier) on a remote machine. Luckily for us, Linux comes with an SSH client installed.

SSH instructions

 * 1) Start a command prompt. You can review how to do this in the command line navigation section.
 * 2) To create a secure shell on a remote machine, you run the command ssh &lt;username&gt;@&lt;hostname&gt;. You'll be prompted for the password for username on the remote host. After entering the password, a command prompt will be displayed, and voila -- you are logged in to a remote machine!
 * 3) We have set up access to a Linux machine for you to play with. Here are the credentials for that machine: Hostname: umd-workshop.openhatch.org  username: anyterp  password: terpterp Using that account information, and using the command template "ssh &lt;username&gt;@&lt;hostname&gt;", try using ssh to log into umd-workshop.openhatch.org as username anyterp.
 * 4) This remote machine is running Linux, so it uses the same commands for navigating the filesystem as those you practiced earlier. Play around with those commands on umd-workshop.openhatch.org.

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