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Using SSH at Columbia College Chicago

Ssh Clients

Secure Shell (ssh) is the replacement for rsh, rlogin, rcp, telnet, rexec, rcp and ftp. It encrypts all traffic, and provides various levels of authentication depending on your needs.

Telnet has security problems, so we've switched over to ssh for remote logins - simply put, you'll need to use an ssh-client application to login on our servers. The set-up is different for each client application, so please read the documentation for whichever one you choose, but in every case you'll need your login name and password (both were provided when you signed up for web space, and are the same as the login and password you use to upload web pages).

Once you've logged in you'll be able to use any bash commands you choose, such as the specific commands in our tutorials (like the password protection How-To). If you're interested in learning more about UN*X or Linux command line computing you could begin your reading at www.linux.com. Additional material for the beginning webmaster is available at Webmonkey.


Windows || Macintosh || Java || Palm || ssh FAQ

Windows

PuTTY - SSH 1 & 2 (Recommended)
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty.html
[Windows 95/98/NT; Freeware]
 
Chaffee's port of ssh 1.2.14
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/winntutil.html
[Windows 95/98/NT, includes scp; Freeware]
 
MIT's Fissh (win32 fissh)
http://web.mit.edu/ssh/FiSSH/
[Windows, Freeware]
 
Others, which may or may not be free:

Macintosh OS 9

MacSSH - SSH 2 (Recommended)
http://www.macssh.com/
[Macintosh 68k and PPC; Freeware]

NiftyTelnet SSH - SSH 1 only
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware.html
[Macintosh; Freeware]
 
Mac OS X has ssh built in - type "man ssh" in the terminal for more information.
(Quickie tutorial: in the terminal type ssh -l username server.colum.edu and substitute your username and your server name)

Java

Jugel & Meibner Java Plugin App v2.0
http://www.mud.de/se/jta/doc/plugins/SSH.html
[Java; Freeware]
 
Gourio's Java-SSH:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fapp2/software/java-ssh/
[Java; Freeware]
 
MindTerm
http://www.mindbright.se/mindterm/
[Java; Freeware]
 

Palm

The ISAAC Group's Top Gun ssh
http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/
[PalmPilot Professional, Palm III, PalmV; works with Minstrel and Omnisky modems; Freeware]
pssh
http://www.sealiesoftware.com/pssh/
SSH 2 for PalmOS 5 - requires an ARM Processor and hi-res screen.
TuSSH
http://staff.deltatee.com/~angusa/TuSSH.html
SSH 1 and SSH 2 - TuSSH should now work with any device with Palm OS 4 or greater. It might even work with OS 3.5 devices but no testing or support is planned for these devices. It has been confimed to work with Sony OS 5 320x480 and 480x320 screens.