Tips and tricks to help you do more with OpenSSH. Vincent Danen shares some tips that you can use to get more done with OpenSSH once you've learned the basics of OpenSSH key management. Previously, we looked at the basics of key management in OpenSSH, which in my opinion, really need to be understood before you start to play with all the other fine trickery OpenSSH offers. Key management is important, and easy, and now that we all understand how to manage keys, we can get on with the fun stuff. Because I take OpenSSH for granted, I don't really think about what I do with it. So here are some pointers and tips to various SSH-related commands that can make life easier, more secure, and hopefully better.
This really is just the tip of the iceberg; there is so much more that OpenSSH can do, but I hope this at least gives you some new tricks and inspires some further investigation. Running remote X applications If you want to run a remote X11 program locally, you can do that via OpenSSH, taking advantage of its encryption benefits. Rxvt-unicode. If you have a problem, please have a look at the FAQ first. Its main features (many of them unique) over rxvt are: Stores text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4). Uses locale-correct input, output and width: as long as your system supports the locale, rxvt-unicode will display correctly. Daemon mode: one daemon can open multiple windows on multiple displays, which improves memory usage and startup time considerably. Embedded perl, for endless customization and improvement opportunities, such as: Tabbed terminal support.
Regex-driven customisable selection that can properly select shell arguments, urls etc. Selection-transformation and option popup menus. Automatically transforming the selection once made. Quick Reference Bash. BashScripts.org :: Index. Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's handbook.