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Secure Access and file transfer from Macintosh

SSH/SCP/SFTP in MacOS X

Fortunately, Apple now includes OpenSSH in the base operating system:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/darwin.html

A GUI for these programs developed at the UM Research Systems Unix Group is also available:
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/

To Install SSH and SCP programs on a box running MacOS ( prior to MacOS X ):

You can pick NiftyTelnet 1.1 SSH up at:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/

The file which you download will be a hqx compressed file. If you don't have an expander to open this up with, the Stuffit program works and is free for download at:
http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/expander_mac_login.html

You can telnet and ssh with this program. Since we will only be allowing ssh connections, you will want to use that option. Through NiftyTelnet, there are 3 options for ssh: ssh-des, ssh-3des, and ssh-blowfish. The one that you will want to use (and that we know works on our systems) is ssh-3des.

To connect and use scp to our systems, you will need to use the scp feature in NiftyTelnet. It is under the File menu. Sadly, the program will not browse the remote host (ie our hosts), so you will need to know the files and paths that you wish to download/upload.

Another option is to download and use the MacSSH and MacSFTP programs found here:
http://pro.wanadoo.fr/chombier/

Updated September 1, 2005