SSH Client

[Fahd]

Can someone recommend a free and simple SSH client for Mac OSX Panther? On windows I always used putty. They dont have a mac version though. Putty is very simple and straightforward. I dont know of any for the mac platform. Google popped up www.macssh.com but theirs runs only in the classic environment.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[TEG]

In OSX run terminal. With in terminal, because its UN*X, SSH is built in. To use it, type 'ssh server.name.com -l username'. You to learn all the flags you can sent, type 'man ssh'. Personally, I use SSH to work on stuff at school, but I perfer rsh for work, or anything that requires security.

Remember, anything Un*x you need a special program to use in windows, 99% of the time is built into OSX.

TEG

 

[GeeYouEye]

^Yep. Alternately, use 'ssh username@domainn.or.ip.address.com'

 

[Fahd]

Aah....forgot all about the terminal. Do you know if its possible to boot the computer directly into terminal? (No GUI)

 

[GeeYouEye]

Originally posted by Fahd
Aah....forgot all about the terminal. Do you know if its possible to boot the computer directly into terminal? (No GUI)

Two ways: hold down cmnd-s at startup (for single user mode), or login as '>console', no password.

 

[tomf87]

Originally posted by TEG
... Personally, I use SSH to work on stuff at school, but I perfer rsh for work, or anything that requires security...

Wait a second here. Rsh doesn't have encryption, so how is it better for security?

 

[Chealion]

I don't suggest using the Command-S when starting up the computer, as that boots you up as root user. Its much safer to log in as >console at the login window. (You can create a user with that name to make life easier and not have to type it in.)

 

[Jammu]

I have a broblem about console. I live in Finland and we have öÖäÄ in use. When i type them to console i only get ASCII characters like: \366, \326, \344, \304

I have been trying to change character encode type to latin1 and tried every ecoding type what i find but none of them works.

what could be wrong? Now i'm using macssh and there characters are what they supposed be but i really prefer console and openssh

Thanks for help

- jammu