This is the best thing ever!
I really strongly disliked the windows ssh clients.
To give you a little background, I've been working with different flavors of
Unix since about 1985 or so with most of my time spent on SunOS (pre
solaris), Linux (since 0.99PL15) and Ultrix. So needless to say what you're
telling me is outstanding news. I can do some key generation and simplify
my whole life. Not to mention bash scripting, on my laptop, really!
The Java access seems so much cleaner as well. I'm going to have to install
mhy Juniper tools (which don't work under Windows) and find a Mac GCC (if
one exists) and go for it. Do you happen to know if X windows is usable?
It's cool you can use the open command to open osx apps from the command
line, that's hot!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <mori...@mac.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: Good accessible SSH client?
Hi Scott,
Your Mac has SSH and SFTP, and other server functions built in. You can
access them directly from the command line in the Terminal app. I use
Terminal so frequently that I have it as one of the default apps in my
dock. (The dock can be useful as a quick way to navigate to apps that
you use frequently -- you can customize it to remove the apps that you
don't often use, and add ones that you do.)
The Terminal app is located, not in the applications folder (which you
can reach in Finder with the shortcut of Command+Shift+A), but in the
Utilities folder, which is a sub-folder of Applications, and which you
can reach with Command+Shift+U. Then press "T" to navigate to "Terminal"
and launch/open the app. I use Command+Down arrow to do this.
By default you'll be using the bash shell. To use ssh, to log into your
account on another system you can simply type:
ssh <your login>AT<your domain>
for example, if your login account name is "scott" and the machine name
is "computer. granados.net", you can type:
ssh sc...@computer.granados.net and press return
or you can use the IP address in place of the domain following the AT
sign:
ssh sc...@168.10.1.2 and press return
then type in your password.
Use a similar syntax for sftp. Macs use "Open SSH" as the protocol.
If you have some Unix/Linux background, there's an old web site: "Top Ten
Mac OS X Hints for Unix Geeks":
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/macforunix.html
You might want to later configure your terminal preferences to suit your
activities. The most likely thing you'll want to set is your terminal
emulation. Application preferences are set with Command +comma. Terminal
emulation is set from the "Advanced" tab of "Settings". I use
non-standard settings, but as I recall the default emulation was to
declare the terminal as "color xterm", and you won't want that for most
systems. Try something like "VT100" or "VT102", if you're in a situation
where it makes a difference.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 26, 2010, Scott Granados wrote:
Can anyone point me at a good quality SSH app? All I need is basic
functionality similar to putty or I'd spend some money to get something
like secure CRT. There's Unix under the hood, is an ssh included?
Any pointers?
Thanks for all the help. This is a great list
Scott
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