SSH tricks

The article describes in a human language some of the powerful, yet very useful (even for total newbies) capabilities of OpenSSH, such as passwordless login, automatic execution of commands on a remote system or even mounting a remote folder using SSH.

Three problems with this article:
- Most people use SFTP, not SCP.
- It's easier to tunnel a Samba session (if you really need to) than to install and use SSHFS.
- They didn't mention the "-D" option, which in conjunction with tsocks allows you to tunnel any application through the encrypted connection, whether it has support for SOCKS or not.

SFTP is perhaps the next step for users that upgraded from FTP access to a hosted web server, but I suspect most ssh users have migrated from the r commands and are using scp in place of rcp.

Comparison...
http://winscp.net/eng/docs/protocols#protocol_comparison

My favorite tool though is rsync. While I use rsync over ssh, I never understood why ssync wasn't created to do this job...

SSH is great for tunneling BonJour/DAAP:
http://www.shokk.com/blog/articles/2006/02/06/getting-ipods-and-itunes-everywhere

Now, if only there were a light daap client so I could avoid starting up iTunes...

Ssh is also really neat as part of an ANT script - so you can use all these neatness for your java deployments and automation.
http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/index.html