Remote Login

He practiced his trombone. He cleaned his room. He finished his math a day early. He wrote the requisite paragraph.

Dad?

What?

Can you, um ... He was reluctant to finish. I was sending an email message.

What? I asked.

Can you enable my account on my machine?

There was some back and forth. I said no a couple times. He asked why. I mumbled about it being late, but in truth it wasn't so late. He asked again. But you could hear the resignation in his voice.

While his last asking faded off, I opened a terminal window from my machine and typed a line:

% ssh admin@vertigo

After I hit the return key, the disk drive on the other Mac spun up.

Cool! You did that!? How did you do that?

I logged into your machine.

You can log into my machine from there!?

I nodded. And I enabled his account.

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