Andy Green wrote:
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jim lawrence wrote:
| Is there a GUI for ssh it is running on the Desktop now
| For me just to connect to it, and maybe browse it? then copy files to
| and from ?
If you want this GUI type stuff, you need to install KDE.
| ssh work for this?
ssh itself is mainly used to literally log into a remote machine and get
a shell.
However it comes with this other program scp, which allows the encrypted
file transfer action between machines.
So what you can do is
ssh username@hostname
to get a remote shell, where you can use cd, ls -l, and whatever to poke
around on the remote server to see what is where, and then when you
identify the file you need to copy, run scp as I described before in a
second terminal window.
Actually, ssh is a gateway to a lot of stuff. It sets up a secure
connection between machines. At its lowest level, yes, it gives you a
shell. However, as you pointed out, scp uses the ssh to tunnel a remote
copy session so it's secure. Ditto with sftp (secure ftp tunneled over
the ssh session). Also ditto with "vncviewer -via host host2" (secure
VNC session tunneled over the ssh session) and a raft of other things.
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