sshd

Secure Shell Daemon

From the man page for sshd :

• sshd (OpenSSH? Daemon) is the daemon program for ssh.
• sshd and ssh provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network.
• sshd listens for connections from clients.
• sshd is normally started at boot from /etc/rc.
• sshd forks a new daemon for each incoming connection. The forked daemons handle key exchange, encryption, authentication, command execution, and data exchange.

-- RobertSajan - 03 Oct 2008