== INVESTIGATION 2: Configuring SSH ==

The default (and often the only way) to administer a Linux server is via SSH. Even if you work in a graphical Linux environment, it is very useful to open a terminal and use SSH to monitor and manage your VMs (you can resize the terminal window). Using SSH to connect to remote servers on a network helps to protect your Linux machine from being penetrated. You will also generate a private and public encryption key for the root user, and copy that public key from your host to your VMs in order to allow certain backup programs to run via a scheduling daemon (called cron) without having to be required to enter the password for the remote machine.