Monthly Archives May 2007

An introduction to OpenSSH part 3 — Port forwarding

(originally posted at www.linuxboxadmin.com )
Last time when we talked about transfering files over OpenSSH, I said you can use port forwarding if you insist to use your favorite FTP client, and we have a brief HOW-TO there. This time, we’ll take a deeper look at port forwarding.

How port forwarding works.Normally network protocols works on two […]

Google left hand search navigation

Google Experimental Search is a good place to find interesting things
if you are using Google. And today I found their left-hand search
navigation is interesting. As the name suggested, it added a navigator
on the left, so we can easily search in blog, news, etc.
And many people using Firefox are using the quick search. To add this
feature […]

An introduction to OpenSSH part 2 — copy files

(originally posted at www.linuxboxadmin.com )
This time we’ll talk about transferring files using OpenSSH. The most
common ways to transfer files between Unix hosts are: rcp, ftp, and
rsync.

rcp and its SSH version: scpThe command rcp works like cp, but it can copy files to and from
remote files. For example, if you want to copy a “test” file […]

An introduction to OpenSSH

(originally posted at www.linuxboxadmin.com )
Well, someone want me to write something about OpenSSH, so here it is.

Why SSH?A lot of Internet protocols are based on telnet, FTP, POP3, SMTP,
etc. That is, these protocols works like two man talking:
“Hello, this is John.”
“Hi, John, please provide your password.”
“My password is ’secret’.”
“OK, you have the right password, please […]

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