The SSH, is a great set of tools that communications with remote servers. You can use the SSH component to remotely log into the commandline of a remote machine, and you can use either scp or sftp to securely transfer files. The default way to use any of these SSH components is to use the username and of a person's normal Linux user account. So, logging into a remote machine from the Terminal of my OpenSUSE workstation would look something like this:
donnie@linux-0ro8:~> ssh donnie@192.168.0.8
donnie@192.168.0.8's password:
While it's true that the username and password go across the network in an encrypted format, making it hard for malicious actors to intercept, it's still not the most secure way of doing business. The problem is that attackers have access to automated tools that can perform brute-force...
