SSH usage

papakota · 06-13-2015, 07:00 PM

Hello!
I want to run web server on Ubuntu 14.04 desktop. Do I need SSH at all? I always have direct physical access to the server. No one else is in business.

berndbausch · 06-13-2015, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by papakota

Hello!
I want to run web server on Ubuntu 14.04 desktop. Do I need SSH at all? I always have direct physical access to the server. No one else is in business.

ssh allows you to log on from a remote system, copy files to/from a remote system, display X clients via an encrypted channel, tunnel other protocols through an encrypted channel, and certainly a few other things that I am currently forgetting on this Sunday morning. If you don't need any of that, you don't need ssh. But this is unlikely, and ssh is bundled in Ubuntu and all other server-oriented distros. Why would you want to remove or disable it?

frankbell · 06-13-2015, 09:33 PM

If you don't need it, don't use it.

Nevertheless, I agree with berndbausch: leave it be; someday you might need it, or, at the least, find it a convenient tool.

papakota · 06-14-2015, 03:30 PM

Thank you both for your replies!