Remote Access Tutorial

Step 1 : Download Visual Studio code from Link

Step 2:

1. Terminal → New Terminal menu option
1. Type ssh [email protected] where zz is replaced by your username letters.
1. When Prompted for surety to continue, type yes. Then enter the password.

Step 3: Try using some commands in terminal :

1. For Example, ls and ls < directory > :
1. Here, List of folders in group is only perl5 so commands ls and ls gives same output

Step 4: Copying files from your own desktop to server.

1. Writing the code first ,
1. Using scp to copy
1. logging into server using ssh and username
1. checking the list on server using ls command
1. Logging out using exit

Step 5 : To avoid using password again and again after using commands like scp, we setup a public key ( on server ) and private key ( on desktop )

1. Type ssh-keygen
1. Enter file when prompted. Here,
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/linux/ieng6/cs15lsp22/cs15lsp22aaq/.ssh/id_rsa): /home/linux/ieng6/cs15lsp22/cs15lsp22aaq/.ssh/id_rsa

Step 6: Optimizing Remote Running

To use commands already used earlier ( or snippets of it ) , click UP arrow key.
To enter multiple commands in a single line, use semicolon as a separator.
To run a command directly on the server, type ssh “”