Good SSH client

[carfac]

Hi:

I am going to switch over my notebook from Win to Mac.... but before I do, I NEED a good secure telnet program. I asked this before when I got an iMac, and was told there was a fine telnet in OS X- true. But I need more. I have to secure telnet to multiple dozens of servers... sometimes in non-standard ways. So I need something that will keep the configs all separate, so I can just click on "Server X" and it will get me in on a non-standard port, remember my passwords, and put me into the directory on the server I want. And do this for many different servers.

What I use in Windows is SecureCRT: http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/

This is perfect, and what I want in a Mac program.

Any ideas?

 

[Eidorian]

I've been sticking with Terminal unless it involves the forsaken tn3720x once in awhile.

 

[carfac]

Thanks, that is the answer I got before. So maybe I am missing something. Can I get that to save a boat-load of profiles.... and then call up the one I need at any time, and it will automatically log me in to that server? (Sorry, I am still a bit of a newbie on these things!)

 

[boast]

Thanks, that is the answer I got before. So maybe I am missing something. Can I get that to save a boat-load of profiles.... and then call up the one I need at any time, and it will automatically log me in to that server? (Sorry, I am still a bit of a newbie on these things!)

# nano ~/.profile

// and add aliases

alias youralias='your commands'

// you make as many as you want as then just type that alias into the terminal
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like having

alias connectBSD='ssh -p 222 root@127.0.0.1'

so then everytime i type "connectBSD" in the terminal, it will execute the command "ssh -p 222 root@127.0.0.1"

 

[costabunny]

You might want something like PuTTY - there is a MAC OS X ver (it uses Xwindows) and it is pretty much like the Windows varint (I used to use SecureCRT, but sarted using PuTTY as its more configurable). (of course in OSX I just use my shell )

 

[carfac]

Thanks for the direction. I will look into PuTTY- I am not so into command line sort of things! I like nice, pretty GUI.

 

[jc1350]

I use iTerm (http://iterm.sourceforge.net/) exclusively instead of terminal. You can save profiles/bookmarks for all your connections. It's excellent.