Mac OS X 10.4 Help

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Allowing remote terminal access to your computer

If you allow remote login, you can use SSH (Secure Shell) to log in to your computer from another location.

You can't use Telnet to log in to the computer.

  1. Open System Preferences and click Sharing.
  2. Click Services and select the Remote Login checkbox. Selecting Remote Login also also enables the secure FTP (sftp) service.

Now you can use an SSH client to log in from another computer.

For example, if your user name is steve and your computer's IP address is 10.1.2.33, you can open Terminal on another Mac OS X computer and type:

ssh -l steve 10.1.2.33

Type "man ssh" at a Terminal shell prompt for more information.

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