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About This Document>>     Introduction to SSH Secure Shell >>     Configuring SSH Secure Shell >>     Authentication >>     Log Messages >>     Using SSH Secure Shell >>         Using the Secure Shell Server Daemon (sshd2)>>         Using the Secure Shell Client (ssh2)>>             Starting the Secure Shell Client             Client Configuration File and Command-Line Options         Using Secure Copy (scp2)         Using Secure File Transfer (sftp2)         Using Authentication Agent (ssh-agent2, ssh-add2)     Tool Syntax>>     Technical Specifications >>

Starting the Secure Shell Client

Ssh2 has a very simple syntax:

ssh [options] hostname [command]

The most common usage is to establish an interactive session to a remote host. This can be done simply by typing ssh hostname.domain. A real-world example could be ssh root@somehost.ssh.com. As with rsh and rlogin, the user ID to be used can also be specified with the -l option, for example ssh -l root somehost.ssh.com.

Note: As shown in the above example, in the normal case, you do not have to type ssh2. The installation process creates a symbolic link, ssh, that points to the actual ssh2 executable. If ssh1 was installed before ssh2, you will need to type ssh1 to run the ssh1 client.

The ssh2 command-line options are documented in detail on the ssh2(1) manual page.