Have you ever used Secure Shell to access a remote machine, only to find yourself needing to download a file from a remote location? What do you do? Since you only have terminal window access to that ...

SSH, or secure shell, is a Unix shell used for secure communication between two networked computers. You may wish to securely download files from a remote system ...

For Linux, Mac, and Windows (PowerShell) an sftp session or scp command to an HPC front-end host can be done easily from on-campus (main or VIMS) or off-campus through the bastion host. In the ...

If shutting off telnet access and insisting that all system-to-system connections use ssh isn’t enough to toughen your system’s hide, here’s another way to make your servers just a little more ...

Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.1-LTS (server). All of a sudden, scp stopped working. Can't figure out for the life of me why. Code: me@box:~$ scp me@otherbox:/tmp/testfile.txt ...

Many people who use PuTTY to make secure connections between Windows desktops and Unix servers are unaware that PuTTY also provides a tool for securely moving files between the two platforms. The ...

When I want to transfer files between computers on the same network, most of the time, I use the scp command. But when I want something a bit simpler to use, I turn to a very handy command-line tool ...