The Secure Shell — SSH — allows you to send secure, encrypted, communications between computers that is nearly impossible to crack. Here's how to use it in macOS. Before personal computers, people ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

I use putty to ssh to a Linux machine to maintain a tunnel for a proxy server. The ssh connection is sometimes quite unreliable and drops, this is likely due to a network beyond my control. Is there ...

Version 20.0 of the desktop tool for server management supports EC2 instances and S3 buckets. SSH keys can now be generated ...

How to achieve persistent SSH connections with the open source MOSH Your email has been sent MOSH makes it possible for SSH connection to persist, even as you roam ...

If shutting off telnet access and insisting that all system-to-system connections use ssh isn’t enough to toughen your system’s hide, here’s another way to make your servers just a little more ...

If you run a lot of terminal tabs or scripts that all need to make OpenSSH connections to the same server, you can speed them all up with multiplexing: making the first one act as the master and ...

Secure shell can overcome a number of networking deficiencies. Jack Wallen illustrates how you can use SSH port forwarding to create encrypted tunnels for remote and local forwarding. The ssh system ...