Did You Know? that you can that you can source /dev/urandom to randomly generate your secure password? For example to generate 6 characters long password you could: # head -c 6 /dev/urandom | mimencode - this will generate 6 random characters NOTE: - mimencode is part of metamail package
-l login_name -v Verbose mode. Causes ssh to print debugging messages about its progress. This is helpful in debugging connection, authentica‐ tion, and configuration problems. Multiple -v options increase the verbosity. The maximum is 3.
4. Examples
ssh to a box with an IP Address 192.168.148.142 and as user root:
ssh -l root 192.168.148.142
or
ssh root@192.168.148.142
Feel free to specify host name instead of IP address. To ssh to linuxconfig.org_remote as a root user we can use:
ssh root@linuxconfig.org_remote
For troubleshooting your ssh service use -vvv option as follows: