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 ...

You are better armed to make use of the SSH tool with an understanding of four key SSH files. If you are a Linux administrator, you know the value of Secure Shell. Without this tool, remoting into a ...

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 ...

I'm logging into my OpenBSD box from my Slackware box and I want to copy some files from that box to the Linux box I'm on. What is the command to do that? I've tried rcp and scp but I can't seem to ...

If you have more than one Linux computer, you probably use ssh all the time. It is a great tool, but I’ve always found one thing about it strange. Despite having file transfer capabilities in the form ...

Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard "ssh" command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a terminal prompt that you can use to run ...

I have some computers in a lab, and I'd like to add all of the ssh keys to a global known_hosts file, so that users will not have to go through the "add key to cache" stuff. <br><br>Is there a global ...

Secure ShellFish is available to install now from the Apple App Store. Very easy to use, includes SSH Key Authentication, port forwarding, and other features that are ...

Tools like scp, sftp and rsync allow us to copy files easily and securely between these accounts. But, what if we don't want to copy the files to our local system before using them? Normally, this ...