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I know that SSH from the command line is easy enough, but would like to give my students that use OS X a GUI option.
Is there a PuTTY equivalent for the Mac?
bmikeDownload Termius - SSH client for macOS 10.9.0 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. Termius is more than a mere SSH client – it’s a complete command-line solution that’s redefining remote access for sysadmins and network engineers.
This page contains download links for the latest released version of PuTTY. Currently this is 0.70, released on 2017-07-08. When new releases come out, this page will update to contain the latest, so this is a good page to bookmark or link to. Cyberduck is a fairly popular file transfer client for Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows. It supports SFTP, FTP, FTPS, WebDAV, Amazon S3, and OpenStack Swift protocols. Cyberduck was built by David V. Kocher, Yves Langisch, and iterate GmbH.
♦To access the Mac via ssh instead, you have to enable remote access for SSH by going into system preferences > sharing, check the remote login box, and just be connected to a network and do all the port forwarding. The SSH Secure Shell for Workstations software includes BOTH a SSH client (named Secure Shell Client) and a SFTP client (named Secure File Transfer Client). For other graphical SFTP clients, download and install Cyberduck, WinSCP, or FileZilla.
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If you are looking for something that keeps track of servers/connections via a GUI, Terminal.app will already do that for you. Launch it and then from the menu select Shell > New Remote Connection. This will give you a connections manager window.
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The best GUI application for SSH (and everything else you can do on the command line) is iTerm 2. While the original iTerm had a tabbed interface before Terminal did, iTerm 2 again eclipses Terminal by adding:
- Support for 256 colors (you'll never go back to 16 colors after using 256)
- Split panes (the sort of thing you can do in GNU screen or tmux, but at the level of the terminal emulator rather than in a program running on the server)
- Special provision for integrating with tmux (an alternative to GNU
screen
, and which most people regard as better & faster thanscreen
) - Terminal-level auto-completion (I don't use this feature so I can't detail how it has advantages over shell-level autocompletion: especially if you use the fish shell or zsh, then it may not be better)
- Growl support
- an Exposé-like view of your tabs
- a full-screen view (and you can choose from either its own or OS X's built-in full-screen mode; I greatly prefer iTerm's own full-screen mode, since it doesn't force you to move to a new 'Space', thus allowing Command-Tab to still work properly)
- paste history (a good complement to the shells' command histories)
- Search
- Instant Replay
and a lot more. Some are mentioned here but some are not, such as co-processes, triggers,smart selection, semantic history, and so on. Development is pretty active, but documentation seems to lag behind. I highly recommend it. I've been using it for years now and have never missed Terminal.
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(It's possible Terminal does some of the things I mention here--it's been so long since I've used it that I don't recall, but when I switched I paid close attention to the differences and there were lots of advantages to iTerm. And it keeps getting better every few weeks or months.)
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You could also take a look as ZOC6 seems pretty cool.
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I'm getting along well with Royal TSX.
This is useful for SSH, RDP and VNC based terminals or web-based interfaces.It has a built-in credential management and team-sharing features.
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Configure ssh options and connect to ssh hosts manually always make me feel bored and have a lot of trouble. At Codinn we made a couple of GUI tools to make using ssh effortless. Those tools helped ourselves, and may also help you.
Core Shell is a PuTTY alike tool with lots of extra features:
- Full-featured terminal, supports 24bit true color.
- Support everything in OpenSSH, agent forwarding, certificates, proxy jump, etc.
- Can read your existing
ssh_config
file as the source of advanced options, especially helpful for experienced users. - Also included advanced options editor, a handy way to tune per-host advanced options.
- Tightly integrated with macOS Keychain, don't have to enter passwords or passphrases repeatedly.
- Always tries to restore your connections after network failure or waking up from sleep.
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You could try SecureCRT and SecureFX from VanDyke Software.
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vSSH is actually an ssh client based on putty. I got it from the app store for about $10.00, so it's a great deal compared to ZOC.
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If you want to start a gui program from ssh, you can use x11 and relay it with xeyes.
See https://dyhr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-enable-x11-forwarding-with-ssh-on-mac-os-x-leopard/
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You need to try Termius (available also as mobile app)
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Just download Wine and download PuTTy.exe and right click and run through wine and when wine opens hit enter (application support) and give it a second and it will open, just make sure you have a server
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CyberDuck is a great option. I used it this semester in complement with Terminal. (CyberDuck is fully functional, we just coded in VI, so using the Terminal for SSH worked better for me.)
You can get CyberDuck for free online, or at a cost on the App Store.
Another option is FileZilla. I used it on Windows for FTP, but I believe that it supports SSH as well. It definitely runs on Mac as well as Windows, so it's another option. FileZilla is also free.
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I want an App for Mac OS X 10.5 to connect to my site using ssh. The app must be free and have some sort of instructions to get me started.
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I just needed to take care of something on my website via SSH. CyberDuck worked.
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Try using Cyberduck, a free, open-source app. Here are the supported protocols:
FTP (File Transfer Protocol), FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS), SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer), WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning), Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files.
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Another great one I recommend (Open Source) is FileZilla
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You can use Cyberduck.
You can use Macfusion, but it's not been updated for a while.
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There is also RBrowser:
Easy-to-use FTP - SFTP/SSH Remote File Management, File Transfers and Folder Synchronization.
Who is RBrowser for? Anybody who has accounts on remote UNIX systems of whatever flavor, or on any host that has an FTP server. Working on documents, managing files over the network can be fairly painful, especially for those who are not experts in the cryptic UNIX shell commands. If you work on remote systems or have to move files back and forth often, RBrowser can make your life a lot easier. RBrowser provides an easy way to manage and edit your HTML pages on the directly on the remote WEB host. RBrowser provides connectivity with FTP and SFTP. Maintain your web pages and sync the changes with a single click! Backup your important files using the Folder Sync Engine in RBrowser!
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