ssh ???

adalt posted this at 16:27 — 28th January 2001.

Joined: Dec 2000

Hi,

I hust received this message from my server in response to a question about finding the error log.

"If you have shell access rights to the host "www.4legs.fi", you can connect
to it by using a ssh client. All error logs are located in directory
"/opt/apache/var/logs/"."

Can anyone explain to me what is ssh & how do I get it to work ??

Thanks

Tony

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Rob Pengelly posted this at 17:34 — 28th January 2001.

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SSH stands for Secure Shell, which is a replacement for telnet. More information regarding SSH can be found at http://www.ssh.org/.

You will need a SSH client. I personally do not have one so I cannot recommend any particular client, but you can find a list of them at http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Security/Products_and_Tools/Cryptography/SSH/Clients/Windows/.

Hope that helps.

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Maverick posted this at 17:40 — 28th January 2001.

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SSH stands for Secure Shell and SSH2 is just an upgrade from SSH1. It's just a more secure way to get shell access to a remote account since FTP and normal Telnet clients are not properly secured and don't send data back and forth encrypted. So in theory somebody could find out your log-in and password when the data is being sent. If you have any Telnet experience, just download a Telnet client that supports SSH2. You can find one at:
http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/

adalt posted this at 20:18 — 28th January 2001.

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Thanks I got it, now I can see the error log I just have to figure out what it means !!!

Thanks again

Tony