SSH tunneling or SSH port forwarding is a method of creating an encrypted SSH connection between a client and a server machine through which services ports can be relayed. SSH forwarding is useful for transporting network data of services that use an unencrypted protocol, such as VNC or FTP , accessing geo-restricted content, or bypassing intermediate firewalls. …

Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard “ssh” command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a terminal prompt that you can use to run commands on, but you can also use the secure copy, or “scp,” command, which connects to a remote SSH server and transfers …