Using ssh and friends

# we spoke about the following tools:
ssh          # utility to access remote machine
ssh-keygen   # used to generate key-pairs (to access machines without a password)
ssh-copy-id  # to copy the public key to the remote machine
scp          # 'secure copy', to copy files from/to a remote machine
rsync        # essentailly a fancy cp, check out the talk on rsync
sshfs        # used to mount a directory on a remote file system as a local directory