Wireless security and OpenSSH

[Jim Carter]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Rick Angell wrote:
> I have a laptop running XP and I would like to make a secure connection
> to my linux box at home.
> ...
>  Can I use OpenSSH for this?  Any ideas and suggestions much appreciated.
>  Thanks!     Rick

Definitely you can, and it's a *very* good idea.  On my home net, all
inter-machine login-type connections and file transfer are by ssh or scp.
This includes both wired and wireless links, and both Linux and WinXP. I'm
using SSH Secure Shell (Ylonen's organization) on WinXP, because it was
available and because I qualify for the free noncommercial/educational
license.  It's OpenSSH on Linux.

At work (UCLA Math Department) we're trying to get all our users to do the
same thing.  Pretty soon we're going to block telnet and rsh at the
firewall.  Here's our user support page:
http://www.math.ucla.edu/ssh/index.html

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