PuTTy type program for OSX

[Shaun N.]

I am in need of a program for OSX essentially the same as PuTTy for Windows. Does anyone know of any?

I have a Macbook Pro that I need to set up for an employee and the main company program is accessed via PuTTy but to satisfy our Apple resellers terms our Business Manager needs to use an Apple product. He wants to totally use OSX so I am trying everything I can without having to install VMware Fusion to run it that way.

Thanks in advance!

[iuerg87yerg879e0rg9erugjer]

thing called terminal in the utilities folder (Y)

[Shaun N.]

  On 06/04/2011 at 15:56, The Protagonist said:

ummm, you must be new to mac

thing called terminal in the utilities folder (Y)

I'm not new to OSX, I am aware of terminal and if I can set it up to create a shortcut to connect directly to our server and use the keybinds then cool, but I wasn't sure it could be done so was looking for a 3rd party program to do it instead.

[iuerg87yerg879e0rg9erugjer]

just make a sh script if you want a quick way to connect, and the key bindings should be the exact same as that in putty

[Shaun N.]

I'll look into that, Thanks

[+BudMan MVC]

Um so your looking for a gui frontend to ssh? I fail to see the need to be honest - as mentioned already just use terminal with the SSH command, putty is fine for windows since it does not have built in ssh support. But this sounds like what your after.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sshxgui/id413937431?mt=12&ls=1

sshXgui.app is a grapical interface for managing SSH Sessions, tunnels, etc. It uses Terminal.app for all ssh sessions.

[Daybreak]

  On 06/04/2011 at 16:04, The Protagonist said:

just make a sh script if you want a quick way to connect, and the key bindings should be the exact same as that in putty

Er I think you meant ssh not sh. Sh is symlinked to bash on OS X.

[xxxxxx.xxxxxx]

I've always used Terminal for ssh access and the "Connect to Server" option in Finder to connect via SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol not Secure FTP as some think).

However if you really want a third party application, you could always try iTerm. I have never used this application but its available through sourceforge if you want to try it out. Supports 10.4 10.5 and 10.6 (Y)

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Er I think you meant ssh not sh. Sh is symlinked to bash on OS X.

I think Prot meant a shell script (script.sh) - or Applescript / Automator could probably do the same job. Im not that clued up on scripting on the mac to be honest.

[Shaun N.]

They guy I need to do this for is a user that has a limited amount of common sense and if I can't get a double click, enter username and password here then I will have to resort to putty for windows

[NeoTrunks]

The one thing that I would like to do that I could with PuTTy is connecting to a device through the serial connection. As far as I know, we can't do that with any built in app. At least, I don't know how. There was one that I tried that was for an OLD version of OS X, but it did not work for my purposes.

[-Dave-]

vim ~/.bash_profile
alias myserver="ssh -p22 username@server.com"

then close + reopen your terminal and type "myserver"

[.Kompressor]

If you want to go the paid route...there is also this app: JellyfiSSH

http://www.grepsoft.net/jellyfissh.html

It used to be FREE but since the app store opened it's now paid.

[Shaun N.]

  On 06/04/2011 at 16:51, -Dave- said:

vim ~/.bash_profile
alias myserver="ssh -p22 username@server.com"

then close + reopen your terminal and type "myserver"

This is good :D - thanks alot

[Shaun N.]

  On 06/04/2011 at 16:51, -Dave- said:

vim ~/.bash_profile
alias myserver="ssh -p22 username@server.com"

then close + reopen your terminal and type "myserver"

Thanks for this it worked perfect, I wonder if it is possible for me to add a couple more into it? ie

vim ~/.bash_profile
alias myserver="ssh -p22 username@server.com"
alias anotherserver="ssh -p22 username@anotherserver.com"

or

vim ~/.bash_profile1
alias anotherserver="ssh -p22 username@anotherserver.com"

Tried both and they don't work so I guess I need to be corrected in the way to do it.

Thanks again!

EDIT! Scratch that! It did work. I was being too eager

[-Dave-]

you can put as many alias's into your bash_profile as you want :) just make suer you close and open the terminal for it to take effect

:)

[Shaun N.]

  On 12/05/2011 at 12:24, -Dave- said:

you can put as many alias's into your bash_profile as you want :) just make suer you close and open the terminal for it to take effect

:)

It was reopening terminal that I hadn't done. Thanks again Dave!

[offroadaaron]

  On 06/04/2011 at 16:36, NeoTrunks said:

The one thing that I would like to do that I could with PuTTy is connecting to a device through the serial connection. As far as I know, we can't do that with any built in app. At least, I don't know how. There was one that I tried that was for an OLD version of OS X, but it did not work for my purposes.

You can use screen for that.

Screen /dev/tty.0 9600 (or whatever baud and interface it is)

To find out what the serial connection is use 'dmesg' as root and it should show you when you connect the serial cable to your machine.

If you're to noob to figure that out you could use minicom but you'll need to install that via macports and configure minicom.

There are GUI ones I'm sure, but I've never really needed to use them.