A
Unix shell program for logging into, and executing commands on, a remote computer.
Secure Shell is intended to replace rlogin
? and rsh
?, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11
? connections and arbitrary
TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
see also telnet
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