Anything like PuTTY for Mac? Need SSHSecureShellClient or similar

[crazychile]

Hi all,

This is a stupid newb question but I am a beginning CS student and need to remote in to the schools Linux network to compile my assignment files. I have detailed instructions from my instructor on how to do this using a PC and PuTTY, but I want to use my Mac Mini to do this if possible.

PuTTY appears to not be compatible w/ Mac, and I need an SSH Secure Shell to connect w/ the school network. Can anyone recommend a free Mac application that will do this for me?

Also, does it need to be used with the Mac Terminal window, or does it effectively replace that for this purpose? I'm really pretty clueless about this.

Thanks in advance for any help!
crazychile

[burgen]

osx comes with ssh support, just open terminal, type SSH username@your remote address, and you are connected

[prostuff1]

I have to do the same thing for my classes at school.

if i type ssh -X username@address I can get in and run programs as if i was on the solaris unix machines on campus.

Hope that helps

[longofest]

by the way.. no one has actually said WHERE terminal is

/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

It might be a no-brainer, but figured I'd throw it out there...

[crazychile]

YES!!!! Thanks guys!

That worked! I should have known that with a Mac there would be an easy solution.

crazychile

[jmmtn4aj]

Hey, I want to do this too but can I use the terminal method such that I can utilise tunnelling the same way as on a desktop? I only need SSH for one website. In Windows I would setup SSH for port local port 7070 then point the Firefox SOCKS proxy to that, and exclude all websites except the website I want to connect to via SSH (my countries IP range is banned from it so I use a server outside).

It seems if I use terminal then all connections will be tunnelled am I right?

[davedelong]

Yep, you can do that too. I use terminal to tunnel VNC through and SSH connection when admining our webserver. It's the -L option on SSH.

Dave