Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard "ssh" command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a terminal prompt that you can use to run ...

Jack Wallen offers tips for securing Linux that you can take care of in five minutes or less. SSH is a tool I use every single day to log into remote Linux servers and take care of my admin tasks.

Jack Wallen is an award-winning writer for TechRepublic, The New Stack, and Linux New Media. He's covered a variety of topics ...

I have a gigabit network at home, and doing scp's over ipv4 from my ubuntu box to another machine (FreeBSD or Mac) gets me about 35MBytes/sec. Doing it over ipv6 gets me 1 or 2 for a while before it ...

Tools like scp, sftp and rsync allow us to copy files easily and securely between these accounts. But, what if we don't want to copy the files to our local system before using them? Normally, this ...

If that works then your tunnel is set up. Now all you need to do is configure phpmyadmin, which I leave as an exercise since the point here is tunnels not phpmyadmin. ssh -T -N -L ...