To establish an interactive connection to a remote system, you can use either the "slogin" or the "ssh" command. The only parameter is the name of the remote system. The passphrase is not echoed to the screen when you type it.
[WOMBATNET:/home/wombat]
$ ssh chinookfe.ucar.edu
Enter passphrase for key '/home/wombat/.ssh/id_dsa':
You can avoid the passphrase prompts by storing your authentication keys in memory. This allows you to only type the passphrase when you place a key in memory. This is accomplished, using OpenSSH, by using "ssh-agent" and "ssh-add".
If your login name on the remote system differs from the one on the local system (the system you are connecting from) you can use the "@" director to specify the remote account name, in this case "foo".
[WOMBATNET:/home/wombat]
$ ssh foo@chinookfe.ucar.edu
foo@chinookfe's password:
If you experience difficulties establishing an ssh connection try running it with the "-v" directive, refer to section 5.3.
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