This may not seem unusual today, but it did replace many unsecured protocols such as telnet and rlogin. On macOS SSH access is sometimes called ‘Remote Login’.Īs the name implies, connections over SSH are encrypted and secure. On macOS you will usually initiate an SSH session with the Terminal application, though there are other third party applications for macOS and iOS that support the SSH protocol as well. It is a protocol that allows you to open a shell (terminal session) on another remote computer over the network.
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