Secure Shell is a set of programs for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin, rsh, rcp, etc. and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. OpenSSH is a version of Secure Shell based upon a much less encumbered SSH version 1.2.12, which has a BSD-style license. Maintained by the OpenBSD project, this is the most free and secure SSH implementation in the world. OpenSSH supports SSH protocol version 1.5 and 2.0. If you don't need SKEY/OPIE you like to use openssh-portable WWW: http://www.openssh.com/ - Brian Feldman green@FreeBSD.org