Using the SSH Clients

The usual OpenSSH clients, ssh, scp, and sftp, work normally without any extra effort on your part:

    # Log into server.example.com as user smith
    $ ssh -l smith server.example.com

    # Copy myfile from your local machine to server.example.com
    $ scp myfile server.example.com:

    # Run an interactive file-copy session with sftp
    $ sftp server.example.com

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