In order to connect to a ssh server, one only needs to type in the following:
ssh server
This will immediately ask you to accept security if it is the first connection. Once that has been accepted, it will then immediately ask you for the password for your username on that server.
If you are trying to connect to the ssh server using a different username, you would use the following command:
ssh server -l username
NOTE: server can be either name or the IP address and the -l stands for login.
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