Mac OS X Unleashed

By John Ray and William C. Ray

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Introduction to Mac OS X
  • Chapter 1. Mac OS X Component Architecture
  • Chapter 2. Installing Mac OS X
  • Chapter 3. Mac OS X Basics
  • Chapter 4. The Finder: Working with Files and Applications
  • Chapter 5. Running Classic Mac OS Applications
  • Part II: Inside Mac OS X
  • Chapter 6. Native Utilities and Applications
  • Chapter 7. Internet Communications
  • Chapter 8. Installing Third-Party Applications
  • Part III: User-Level OS X Configuration
  • Chapter 9. Network Setup
  • Chapter 10. Printer and Font Management
  • Chapter 11. Additional System Components
  • Part IV: Introduction to BSD Applications
  • Chapter 12. Introducing the BSD Subsystem
  • Chapter 13. Common Unix Shell Commands: File Operations
  • Part V: Advanced Command-Line Concepts
  • Chapter 14. Advanced Shell Concepts and Commands
  • Chapter 15. Command-Line Applications and Application Suites
  • Chapter 16. Command-Line Software Installation
  • Chapter 17. Troubleshooting Software Installs, and Compiling and Debugging Manually
  • Chapter 18. Advanced Unix Shell Use: Configuration and Programming (Shell Scripting)
  • Part VI: Server/Network Administration
  • Chapter 19. X Window System Applications
  • Chapter 20. Command-Line Configuration and Administration
  • Chapter 21. AppleScript
  • Chapter 22. Perl Scripting and SQL Connectivity
  • Chapter 23. File and Resource Sharing with NetInfo
  • Chapter 24. User Management and Machine Clustering
  • Chapter 25. FTP Serving
  • Chapter 26. Remote Access and Administration
    • Security-Minded Thinking
    • What Is Secure Shell?
    • Starting SSH in OS X
    • Using SSH: From Unix Box to Unix Box
    • Using an SSH2 Client in Mac OS
    • Using an SSH1 Client in Mac OS
    • Public Key Authentication
    • Are There Any Graphical SSH Clients for OS X?
    • Are There SSH Clients Available for the PC?
    • Summary
  • Chapter 27. Web Serving
  • Part VII: Server Health
  • Chapter 28. Web Programming
  • Chapter 29. Creating a Mail Server
  • Chapter 30. Accessing and Serving a Windows Network
  • Chapter 31. Server Security and Advanced Network Configuration
  • Chapter 32. System Maintenance
  • Appendix A. Command-Line Reference
  • Appendix B. Administration Reference

Are There Any Graphical SSH Clients for OS X?

As of this writing, there is no native OS X graphical SSH client. To use SSH in OS X, you will have to learn the command-line SSH tools. Hopefully, as OS X becomes more widely used, more native OS X applications will be developed. Whether they are SSH products or other types of applications, be certain you let the software companies know that you are interested in having native OS X applications on the market.

In the meantime, you might be wondering how the graphical SSH clients work as Classic applications in OS X. Unless you enjoy the thrill and excitement of seeing a machine-with-floppy icon with a question mark, we recommend that you do not even try it. We had a particularly bad experience with the F-Secure SSH 2.1 client running as a Classic application. We have not experimented with the freely available SSH clients running as Classic applications.

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