SSH, or secure shell, is a Unix shell used for secure communication between two networked computers. You may wish to securely download files from a remote system ...

In the never-ending search to work smarter, not harder, few things can be simpler than entering commands on one Mac and having them pushed out across the entire LAN to multiple nodes. One of these ...

As a partner in a Web development company, one of my jobs is to manage several Windows and Linux servers. Since I rarely have physical access to any of that hardware, I rely on LogMeIn much of the ...

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 ...

If you’re an admin with Linux servers in your data center or cloud hosted account (such as AWS and Google Cloud), chances are pretty good you connect to those machines via SSH. Sometimes you need to ...

If you regularly use "ssh" to establish many remote connections, you might benefit from creating a scripted menu for yourself that contains your server connections. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

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

If you use SSH on your Mac, try this shortcut. The SSH connection manager is built into the terminal app. This tool is simple and free to use. I use Secure Shell (SSH) every day because it's one of ...

These five applications show how far a terminal workflow can go and might convince you that you do not always need a GUI to ...