It is common practice to use ssh (= secure shell) for remote administration. Foremost because it is a very secure way doing it, and supported on a vast variety of operating systems:
- BSD (Free-/Net-/OpenBSD) – comes along with OpenSSH already
- Linux (Debian, Fedora, RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc.) – mostly comprises an optional OpenSSH software package
- Mac OS X – comes along with OpenSSH already
- Unix (AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, etc.) – comprise all some SSH software package
- Windows – regularly lacks of useful tools, but putty fills that gap complete
