Changes between Version 43 and Version 44 of cypress/SshUsage

Timestamp:

02/26/21 15:40:07 (4 years ago)

Author:

cbaribault

Comment:

Updated sections Secure Shell… and Tunneling X Windows… to reflect ssh now available in Windows 10

cypress/SshUsage

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 || [[Image(WindowsSearchBox.png, center, 50%)]]||[[Image(WindowsCommandPrompt.png, center, 50%)]] ||
 
-Check that ssh is installed by entering the following command.
+Check that '''ssh''' is installed by entering the following command.
 
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 == A short History ==
-Scientists have been performing computations remotely since 1940 when George Stibitz used a Teletype machine to perform remote computations on a Complex Number Machine in New York City from the an AMS conference held at Dartmouth (http://history-computer.com/Internet/Dreamers/Stibitz.html). By 1973, standards were defined for a set of remote access protocols called Telnet which are still in use today. Subsequently (1983), the Berkley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix operating system instituted an alternative protocol called Remote SHell, or rsh. While still available on most systems, rsh is not recommended for common use as it lacks encryption. In 1995, this lack of security lead a researcher named Tatu Ylonen to invent a secure set of protocols after his University was the victim of a sniffing attack. He named his protocols Secure SHell, or ssh, and this has become the default means of remote access for unix based machines world wide.
+Scientists have been performing computations remotely since 1940 when George Stibitz used a Teletype machine to perform remote computations on a Complex Number Machine in New York City from the an AMS conference held at Dartmouth (http://history-computer.com/Internet/Dreamers/Stibitz.html). By 1973, standards were defined for a set of remote access protocols called Telnet which are still in use today. Subsequently (1983), the Berkley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix operating system instituted an alternative protocol called Remote SHell, or rsh. While still available on most systems, rsh is not recommended for common use as it lacks encryption. In 1995, this lack of security lead a researcher named Tatu Ylonen to invent a secure set of protocols after his University was the victim of a sniffing attack. He named his protocols Secure SHell, or SSH, and this has become the default means of remote access for unix based machines world wide.
 
 
 
 == Secure SHell (SSH) ==
-=== Linux and Mac ===
-Users on Mac and Linux workstations have ssh available on the command line. 
+=== Linux, Mac, Windows 10, and WSL ===
+Originally, only users on Mac and Linux workstations had '''ssh''' available on the command line. Afterwards, support for '''ssh''' was added to Windows 10 - initially via WSL (see [#InstallingWindowsSubsystemforLinuxWSL WSL] above) and then directly from the Windows terminal.
 To connect to a remote server run the following:
 
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 [[Image(https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/e/2PACX-1vSlffILDUxxzh_QpD4M7P5-bY_tCkYNjA9xIYWuUUqz_HBBczQ18o5AWA9OZ5_w5Q0bwQJbdgmUCuMJ/pub?w=594&h=209, center)]]
 
-== Tunneling X Windows Session via SSH ==
-=== Linux and Mac ===
-Users on Mac and Linux workstations have ssh available on the command line.
+== Tunneling X Windows Session ==
+
+=== Using SSH ===
+
+The '''ssh''' command has a '''-Y''' option to support X window tunneling.
 
 To connect to a remote server with X window tunneling run the following:
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 }}}
 
+==== Mac ====
+
 For Mac users, you may have to install [https://www.xquartz.org/  XQuartz].
+
 === Windows ===
-Windows users will need to download an X window server/client software.
+
+All Windows users - whether using '''ssh''' or PuTTY - will need to download and install X window server/client software.
 
 [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/files/Xming/|Xming]]
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 [[http://www.cygwin.com/|Cygwin]]
 
+==== Using PuTTY ====
+
 [[Image(puttyX11.png, center, 30%)]]
-With PuTTY, enable X11 forwarding.
+With PuTTY - in addition to X window server/client software mentioned above, enable X11 forwarding as shown.
 
 = CHECKPOINT =