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Hi
please help me about SSL and SSH what is that and what is there using purpose coz some of my clients asking me for ssh access or ssh root access i don't know what is that.

Thanks in advance

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Hello svmer,

SSH and SSL are two different things.

SSL is secure socket layer. Take gmail, for example, their URLs start with https:// not http:// the 's' means the connection is secure and encrypted.

To use SSL, you need an SSL certificate, these are not normaly free. You can get a free one at http://cert.startcom.org/.

SSH, however is 'Secure Shell'. This is secure shell (command line) access to a unix server or computer. What your clients mean is that they want command line access to your server. You can allow this by installing OpenSSH.

Root ssh is when the user has administrator (root) permissions over SSH. It would normally be used on a VPS server.

Calum

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