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SSH Keys

What is SSH?

SSH stands for Secure Shell. It is a software that allows to establish a user-connection to a remote UNIX/Linux machine over the network and remote-control it from your local work-station.

Let's say you have an HPC cluster with hundreds of machines somewhere in a remote data-center and you want to connect to those machines to issue commands and run jobs. Then you would use SSH.

Follow the steps to go deeper:

  1. SSH Basics
  2. SSH for Linux
  3. SSH for Windows