SAMS Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours FOURTH EDITION

Chapter 21. Using telnet, SSH, and ftp

In the preceding hour, you learned how to use electronic mail to interact with other users both on your system and elsewhere on the Internet. In this hour, you see how to use Unix tools to connect to remote systems and transfer files and programs back and forth at will.

Goals for This Hour

In this hour, you will learn about

• Connecting to remote Internet sites

• Securing connections with SSH

• Using FTP to transfer files

• Working with Anonymous FTP Archives

This hour is intended to offer a quick overview of how to connect to other Unix systems on the Internet, both to transfer files and to interact directly.

Stepping Beyond Your Own System

You can do lots of things on a local Unix system, but if you're lucky, your system ...