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@@ -2,28 +2,22 @@ Title: Demystifying SSH
 Date: 2019-06-17
 Tags: ssh
 Slug: demystifying-ssh
-Description: Understanding, using and troubleshooting SSH for fun and not-for-profit
+Description: Setting up and understanding remote terminal connections to your server using SSH for fun and not-for-profit
 Author: decentral1se
-Status: draft
+Status: published
 Category: fundamentals
 
 ## Introduction
 
-One of the more important and foundational skills needed for experimenting and
-maintaining servers is understanding, using and troubleshooting SSH.
+Some of the essential things that separate a server from other computers is that first they are usually not where you are and second that often come without screen and keyboard. With homebrewservers this is particularly the case when using Single Board Computers (SBC).
 
-SSH is all about remotely gaining access to the command-line interface of your
-server. Remotely accessing your server is probably one of the first things
-you'll want to achieve when starting to run a server from your home.
+In order to use a server you need to it over the network using the command-line interface or shell. This is usually done with a program called SSH which stands for Secure Shell.
 
-When your server has no screen attached, no desktop environment installed, you
-would like to access it when you are not at home or allow your friend to log
-in, you will need to use SSH.
+One of the more important and foundational skills needed for experimenting and
+maintaining servers is understanding, using and troubleshooting SSH.
 
-Using SSH can be a frustrating experience. There are many moving parts to
-consider when dealing with user accounts, permissions, public key cryptography,
-protocols, clients, servers and agents. And yet despite so much to consider,
-SSH is praised as something easy to use and quite often presupposed knowledge
+Setting up and using SSH can be a challenge at first. There are many moving parts to
+consider. Working with SSH means knowing something about user accounts, permissions, public key cryptography, protocols, clients, servers and agents. And yet despite so much to consider, SSH is praised as something easy to use and quite often presupposed knowledge
 between peers.
 
 With this in mind, there is a need to demystify SSH. In this guide we aim to
@@ -32,9 +26,8 @@ approaches for day to day use and troubleshooting.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-The SSH ecosystem is old and venerable. It is available on all modern GNU/Linux
-distributions. You can use your home server or if you don't have one yet you
-can use your own personal laptop to experiment (in this case, your laptop will
+The SSH ecosystem is very established. It is available on all modern GNU/Linux
+distributions, MacOS and Windows. You can use your home server or if you don't have one yet you can use your own personal laptop to experiment (in this case, your laptop will
 play the role of both the server and client as explained later).
 
 The commands shown in this guide were run on a [Debian Stretch] distribution