How To Get Access Via Command Line Tool for Cloud Servers and Git is intended for the beginners who has no idea how to login to a Cloud Server or Git. We will not go in to very deep on the topic How To Get Access Via Command Line Tool, as it is fully related to networking and will confuse the new users. Our target is to educate the newbies via this How To Get Access Via Command Line Tool who has never used or even heard of Shell Access, Telnet, SSH etc.
How To Get Access Via Command Line Tool for Cloud Servers and Git : Introduction
The basic thing is that, there are basically three groups of users (it is over simplification for better understanding by the beginners) :
- Windows Users : Windows PC has no default software that supports SSH / Telnet. Most uses PuTTY named free application for the purpose.
- Linux User : Linux is Unix Like Operating System, your Terminal will work fine for the purpose.
- Mac User : Mac is full UNIX now, The default UNIX shell in Mac OS X Panther (10.3) or later is Bash, Terminal is a program included with all versions of Mac OS X. It is located in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. iTerm2 is also a widely used application.
For Git, usually Git specific softwares are available from the official websites. On Linux (Debian and Derivatives like Ubuntu), official websites supplies the needed command to install and use Git from Terminal itself. For Windows a separate Git Bash is used, supplied as installable exe software.
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How To Get Access Via Command Line Tool for Cloud Servers and Git : Why We Need it
We need to remote login to the remote computer, where unless other softwares installed, there is no graphical user interface like your desktop, unless you configure as VNC Desktop. That is however has issues and not conventional way. On git you can not do it.
How To Get Access Via Command Line Tool for Cloud Servers and Git : Steps
Windows PC : Download PuTYY for Shell access and Git specific softwares for Git. We have full guide for PuTTY.
Linux and Mac : Simply type :
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ssh username@IP |
Username is usually root and IP is server’s IP.
For git, login command varies widely, usually in the syntax :
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git-provider-name login |
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