Example uses of the command "ssh"

A typical use of ssh would be:

ssh jjones@mybox.somebusiness.com

where "mybox.somebusiness.com" would be the URL of the computer you want to connect to, and "jjones" would be your username on that machine. Before you are connected, the password needs to be entered for that username.

If your username on the local machine in this same as on the remote machine you can use the command:

ssh mybox.somebusiness.com

You can directly issue a command on the remote machine as follows:

ssh jjones@mybox.somebusiness.com ps

which will execute the ps command and show a list of processes running.

See the ssh man page for complete documentation.

See also rlogin.