{"id":3372,"date":"2021-10-23T12:46:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T12:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2021-10-23T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T12:46:19","slug":"what-is-ssh2-and-how-to-install-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/what-is-ssh2-and-how-to-install-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SSH2 and how to install it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SSH2 provides bindings to libssh2 library which give access to resources (remote EXEC, shell, file transfer, tunneling) on a remote machine using a secure cryptographical transport. SSH2 may be a a lot of efficient, secure, &amp; portable version of SSH that features SFTP, that functions like FTP, however has SSH2 encryption enabled. It works on port 22 rather than 21.<\/p>\n<p>You can validate multiple identities via public key encryption rather than using passwords to authenticate remote hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Installation of SSH2 is very easy and needs no more than 2 commands on a linux distro.<\/p>\n<p><strong># yum install libssh2-devel<br \/>\n# pecl install -f ssh2<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"kb-article-content\">\n<p>You can install SSH2 on your\u00a0<strong>linux VPS<\/strong>\u00a0OR\u00a0<strong>managed dedicated servers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kb-aubox-mncntnr\">\n<div class=\"kb-aubox-col kb-aubox-col-avatar\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSH2 provides bindings to libssh2 library which give access to resources (remote EXEC, shell, file transfer, tunneling) on a remote machine using a secure cryptographical transport. SSH2 may be a a lot of efficient, secure, &amp; portable version of SSH that features SFTP, that functions like FTP, however has SSH2 encryption enabled. It works on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dedicated-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}