SSH and Remote Access

Part of the Linux course

The machine you actually need is somewhere else. It is a server in a data centre, a virtual machine in a cloud, a build box under someone's desk. You need a shell on it, and you need to move files to and from it, and you need to do that over a network that anyone could be listening on.

The shape of the command is the user you want to be, an @, and the machine you want to be on: