Many people prefer the ease of use and greater functionality of the ssh suite of tools for secure remote access. Unlike opie , you will definitely need the assistance of a systems administrator to install ssh . A full installation requires root access.
Authentication is performed both on the machine level and the user level.
There are currently two major releases of ssh . Version 2 addresses these problems. While MSRI supports outgoing ssh1 for backwards compatibility, we only allow ssh2 for incoming connections. In what follows, ssh refers to version 2 of ssh . Obtaining ssh ssh2 is freely available for educational use.