In 1997, I was talking to a professional investor who thought that the value of office space in urban high rises was about to take a big dive. His rationale was that telecommuting was going to get big ...

SSH is the descendant of rsh and rlogin, which are non-encrypted programs for remote shell logins. Rsh and rlogin, like telnet, have a long lineage but now are outdated and insecure. However, these ...

You can avoid command line tedium and simplify access to a fleet of servers by creating a flexible configuration file for your SSH client. Here’s how. This blog post covers how to configure the ...

SSH tunneling, or SSH port forwarding, is a method of transporting arbitrary data over an encrypted SSH connection. SSH tunnels allow connections made to a local port (that is, to a port on your own ...

Secure access is essential in the world of high-performance computing (HPC). WAVE, Santa Clara University's HPC unit, allows users to securely connect via SSH (Secure Shell) for command-line access.

When you log into a remote computer for the first time, you are asked if you want to accept the remote host’s public key. Well how in the heck do you know if you should or not? If someone perpetrated ...