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The following created an SSH tunnel from my local desktop port 8181 to a remote server port 8181 on which Squid was running so I could point my browser to local port 8181 and the web browsing traffic would be sent over an encrypted connection: ssh -f -N -q -L 8181:localhost:8181 johnny@remoteserver.com -f tells ssh [...]

Connecting to remote servers using SSH is very common in systemadministration and involves entering the command : sshuser@remotehostname and the corresponding password. It is possible to use public keys with SSH to allow the remote host to accept SSH connections from you without password authentication. This can beuseful for automatically scheduled tasks (CRON jobs) for [...]