SSH

  1. Initialism.  (networking) Secure Shell a networking protocol by which two computers are connected via a secure channel.
  2. Noun.  A program and protocol for securely logging in to and running programs on remote machines across a network, with encryption to protect the transferred information and authentication to ensure that the remote machine is the one desired.
  3. Verb.  To use ssh to connect to a remote computer.

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