I've got my account information today for our dedicated server and now I need to login using SSH. What do I have to do?

Answer by:  Curtis Vize, APlus.Net Knowledge Base Support  4/21/2004

First, you need a client for connecting via SSH.  A good Windows based, free SSH client is PuTTY, you may download the PuTTY client from the following URL:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

(If you like, you may also obtain the complete suite of tools PuTTY offers for Win32 from this site as well.)

Please be aware, when you are connecting via the SSH protocol you will be logging into a bash command line.  Please double check of all work that you do and make backups before you make changes for your own safety and sanity.

To Connect:
1) Open your SSH program. (Putty or whatever application you chose)
2) Set the host address to read as the IP address of your dedicated server.
3) Be sure to set the connection protocol to SSH (NOT Telnet).
4) Hit the enter/return key on keyboard or click connect with your mouse.
5) When the user name prompt comes up please submit the user as "root".
6) Use the admin password that was emailed to you upon the completion of your server provisioning.

If you are connecting from a Unix shell the command is as follows:

ssh -l root $variable_your_dedicated_server_IP