Anonymous user
Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux SSH: Difference between revisions
Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux SSH (view source)
Revision as of 14:16, 25 February 2012
, 12 years agono edit summary
imported>Jesstess (Created page with '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 S…') |
imported>Paulproteus No edit summary |
||
Line 5:
# Start a command prompt. You can review how to do this in the [https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/UMD/Laptop_setup#Goal_.231:_practice_navigating_from_the_command_line command line navigation section].
# To create a secure shell on a remote machine, you run the command <tt>ssh <username>@<hostname></tt>. You'll be prompted for the password for <tt>username</tt> on the remote host. After entering the password, a command prompt will be displayed, and voila -- you are logged in to a remote machine!
# We have set up access to a Linux machine for you to play with. Here are the credentials for that machine:
# 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 <tt>umd-workshop.openhatch.org</tt>.
|