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SSH on Mac OS X

Revised Mar 14 2003
Mac OS X automatically includes SSH software so nothing needs to be downloaded from Sitelicense. These webpages document SSH's use in communicating with u.arizona.edu (the U-System) from a Mac running OS X.

  • The command ssh is used to log in to remote hosts, replacing rlogin and telnet.
  • SSH software also includes the commands scp and sftp, which replace cp and ftp for copying files to and from the U-System.
  • Some applications like Fetch and GoLive have their own file-transport mechanisms but they are not secure so they must tunnel SSH to get to remote hosts that are protected by SSH.
  • You might consider Fugu as a graphical alternative to Fetch for file transfers.
These webpages document how to get OS X to communicate with the U-System in order to:
log in to u.arizona.edu, copy files in both directions, tune your OS X environment for SSH using Unix basics
set up SSH tunneling
use Fugu to copy files
use tunneling with Fetch to copy files
use tunneling with Dreamweaver to publish webpages
use tunneling with GoLive to publish webpages

OS X is a non-traditional Mac interface. If more Unix details are needed to make these pages useful, please notify us using the mailto: at the bottom of all these webpages.

SSH for Macintosh
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