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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Secure Shell (SSH) is a tool I use daily. On my local area network (LAN), I have several Linux desktops and servers I need to access at any given moment, some of which do not have graphical user ...

SSH was a welcome replacement for Telnet when it emerged in the mid-1990s, since it encrypted the connection to conceal it ...

Secure Shell (SSH) keys are used on modern networks for computers to identify each other, and to grant secure access from one computer on a network to another. The basic was SSH runs is with keys, you ...

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 ...

I'm trying to set up a computer to connect to a server over SSH with X11 forwarding. The basic sequence is something like this: Then I get a prompt and I enter the program name, which starts the ...