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On 21/01/11 07:37, Philip Hudson wrote:
Thanks for the help so far everyone. Looking at security in the cPanel for my host I see that choices include SSL/TLS Manager and SSH/Shell Access. I have looked at them of course and read their help notes but am not much the wiser. I have also done some Google searches on SSH which confused me even more. Hence my original email.Simon's post is excellent and pretty much covers all the bases, especially his opening comment on security being a question of trade-offs not absolutes. I'm more than willing to advise in detail on configuring ssh (the client you use to connect to another machine, which is in turn used by scp and sftp) and sshd (the server). It's taken a decade or so but I think I now understand more than 80% of the configuration options based on real-life usage. One thing nobody mentioned so far is the use of public keys to give secure transparent remote access -- no passwords. Among many other benefits, this allows you to script remote machines -- something ssh offers that FTP, telnet etc cannot do. -- Phil Hudson PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz @UWascalWabbit
I think that I would like to understand it all a bit better. I will be asking for some help on setting it up therefore, thanks Phil.
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