Secure Shell

Secure Shell or SSH is a secure means of controlling a remote machine.

Closing a Hung Session

Type enter, tilde (~), period, enter to exit a hung SSH session.

Tunneling

You can tunnel single ports or run a socks proxy with SSH. Google for SSH forwarding or see the howto below.

See Also

• Proxies and VPN
• Shell account tutorial

External Links

• Wikipedia Article
• SSH socks proxy howto