{"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. 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