[Spliff]

Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to use SSH, please?

I want to know how to set up my computer to accept a SSH connect.

I want to be able to locate, launch, or kill applications remotely. As well as be able to restart or shutdown my computer from a remote location.

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

Originally posted by Spliff:
Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to use SSH, please?

I want to know how to set up my computer to accept a SSH connect.

I want to be able to locate, launch, or kill applications remotely. As well as be able to restart or shutdown my computer from a remote location.

Easy one. In the sharing control panel; activate remote acces (My mac is far from here, but that should be the name, please someone correct me if I'm wrong).

the ssh your.machine.net login with user/password you use graphically. ps -aux |grep process, read the pid and kill -9 pid , will let you kill a process.

rebooting the machine should be done like that :
sudo reboot.
passwd : enter your password.

May I suggest you purchase this book. You might rapidely need it.

[cteselle]

It's listed as "Remote Login" in the Services tab of the Sharing Control Panel.

[Camelot]

Of course, the other element is in making your system accessible to the outside world.

If you're on a broadband connection, this may mean configuring your router to forward port 22 connections to your Mac's address.

As to how to do that, you'll need to refer to your router's documentation since each vendor's router is different.