Secure Shell (SSH) gives you an encrypted network connection to your Raspberry Pi You don't want to leave many of these projects open for anyone to access remotely. When you know how, accessing a ...

Thankfully, there are ways to manage the Raspberry Pi remotely without disassembling your project. This is where SSH comes in. SSH stands for Secure Shell.

Today boards like the Raspberry Pi, the Beagle Bone, and their many imitators make it easy to get a small functioning computer on the network — wired or wireless. And wireless is everywhere.

Last time I showed you how to expose a web service on a Raspberry Pi (or, actually, any kind of device) by using a reverse proxy from Pagekite. On your Pi, you just need a simple Python script.

Windows users can use the PuTTY tool. To connect from a remote Linux machine, launch a terminal and enter the command: $ sudo ssh pi@192.168.3.100 ...

Select Yes. Choose OK and Finish to exit. While you're in the command line, look for the Pi's username — the green text before the @ symbol. You'll use this to connect to Raspberry Pi via SSH later.