{"id":2220,"date":"2015-10-28T12:56:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2023-01-19T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:58:09","slug":"what-is-ssh-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/what-is-ssh-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SSH Protocol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu,sans-serif;\"> What is SSH? <strong>Secure SHell Protocol (SSH)<\/strong> is a cryptographic (encrypted) network protocol to allow remote login and other network services to operate securely over an unsecured network. The functionality of SSH is similar to Telnet and rlogin, but, unlike them, encrypts all traffic including transmitted passwords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu,sans-serif;\">This is the way you manage your server through terminal mode and the corresponding unix command shell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu,sans-serif;\">Working with the terminal remote unix server, you can perform file operations, run binary programs and scripts, compile files, install additional perl modules and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu,sans-serif;\">If you are using a Windows platform you need a special program &#8211; SSH-client &#8211; to connect the server. The most popular SSH-clients is <a title=\"\u0421\u043a\u0430\u0447\u0430\u0442\u044c Putty\" href=\"http:\/\/www.putty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PuTTY<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu,sans-serif;\">Connection settings:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu,sans-serif;\"><strong>Server name:<\/strong> server IP;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu,sans-serif;\"> <strong>Port<\/strong>: <em>by default (22)<\/em>;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu,sans-serif;\"> <strong>Encoding<\/strong>: (Character set in Translation section in PuTTY): <em>Win1251 (windows-1251, cp1251)<\/em>;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu,sans-serif;\"> <strong>Login and password<\/strong>: <em> root and password as usual<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu,sans-serif;\">Users of Mac OS X or Linux can use the standard terminal application to connect to virtual server via SSH Protocol. To connect to your virtual server use the following command (change 192.168.1.1 to the IP address of your virtual server):<\/span><\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">ssh root@192.168.1.1<\/pre>\n<p>The process of connection to the virtual server in UNIX or Mac OS X terminals:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">ssh root@192.168.1.1                 -- enter a command with your IP    \r\nThe authenticity of host '192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)' can't be established.\r\nRSA key fingerprint is 4f:e8:84:42:51:80:48:70:45:6c:69:47:79:e7:c0:56.\r\nAre you sure you want to continue connecting (yes\/no)? yes -- press yes\r\nWarning: Permanently added '192.168.1.1' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.\r\nroot@192.168.1.1's password:          -- enter your root password\r\n[root@server ~]#<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is SSH? 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