Title says it all :). (This is intended for hosting customers not hosting companies :) )

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

I find it useful when I'm at work and need to make a quick change to a website and the original files are back at the house. It's also useful for setting up cron jobs if the host allows it and doesn't have that feature in the control panel. It's also nice for testing cgi scripts at the command line. Sometime it's easier to find the error that way.

Richard

Fun to log in and run top, check my email, maybe use lynx every month or so. Certainly no reasons that make it truly necessary of course. It's just fun. Fun fun fun! I bet I can do this through Telnet too. I love it, and nobody's gonna take it away from me.

appletreats like telnet it seems :)

While being a host, I'm also a domain owner so I might count. I use SSH for installations mostly.

wget to Ezpublish's download site

unpack it, install and configure the ini files Would have taken forever to do that via ftp.. as an example.

top is handy too, though that's obviously more interesting from the host end of things... even if it's mightly relaxing and hypnotic to watch it for a while - as long as nothing's going through the roof. :D

Greg Moore

It's a PITA to run gcc without ssh access.

what is a PITA and a gcc? :)

A PITA is bloody annoying, and gcc is the GNU (Not Unix)* C Compiler.

Secure Shell (SSH)


Cryptography helps to ensure your privacy tremendously. While on the Internet, you need to be on guard at all times. SSH was developed by Tatu Ylönen and is a program that will allow you to Telnet into your account securely.

It provides strong authentication and secure communications (RSA-based) over insecure channels. If you have telnet access to any machine this is definitely the way to go.

Accessing your account via standard Telnet compared to accessing your account via a SSH connection is like sending a postcard compared to sending a letter wrapped neatly inside an envelope. Anyone near your postcard can read it easily, wouldn't you rather your private information be tucked away a little better then that? Finding a host that offers SSH will take a little more work on your part, but with the amount of people (young, old, good, and bad) accessing the Internet today, better to be safe then sorry.

If you're a Telnet user... it's better to go SSH

Originally posted by Billabong2k2
what is a PITA

pain in the ass :)