I use secure shell a LOT, every day. So much so that I often take for granted how important this tool is. Not only does it allow me to log into remote machines to handle management of said machine, it can do other things as well – X tunneling being one of the most useful features. But for many users ssh only serves as a means to log in, do a few command-line tasks, and log out. It doesn’t (and shouldn’t) have to be that way.

With Secure Shell there are a number of ways to use (and configure) this tool to make it more useful and more secure. In this article you will learn five different (and handy) secure shell tips to make sure your ssh usage is as good as it can be.

Password-less logon

Have have dealt with this before (as a side note), but wanted to re-iterate this process. Because I use ssh so much I get tired of having to enter passwords constantly. Now I will preface this by saying only do this on a network you trust. Yes you will be logging into ssh with a certificate, and that certificate will be on your machine, but you don’t want to employ this method on a network that can not be trusted. With that in mind, here are the steps for setting this up.

On the local machine issue the command:

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