Displays your session parameters. Toggles operating parameters. Displays help Information. Another method of connecting to other computer systems is through the UNIX Secure Shell utility. To use Secure Shell both computers must have the utility installed.
Secure shell encrypts all communication between the two computers.
This file contains the IP address of each computer and the login name of the user you wish to allow to connect to your UNIX account. To connect to another computer, use the ssh command. A socket is one end of a network connection between two computers. A port is a specific well-known number that the server listens on and the client know to connect to. Printing and using E-mail simultaneously requires two ports Some Telnet addresses require a specific port number to be specified, so that the user is restricted to perform only that task.