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PuTTY for Mac: 5 Free Alternative SSH Clients to Use

If you are the owner or the manager of a website, or a sysadmin, for that matter; you must have heard of (and probably used) PuTTY, at least once. While moving from Windows to Mac is mostly an exciting, and positive change, if you did use PuTTY, you will find yourself stranded in the dark, as there is no PuTTY support on Mac.

I, myself, don’t SSH into my website, and hence don’t really mind the absence of PuTTY. However, it does pose a problem to many people who use PuTTY and have only recently made the switch to Mac. Well, we have compiled a list of 5 free PuTTY alternatives that should let you SSH into a remote server:

1. Terminal

The Terminal app is the default CLI that comes bundled with the Mac, and is a rather powerful tool, in case you didn’t know. You can use the Terminal to SSH into a remote server, provided, obviously, that you have the valid login credentials.

Here’s a short example of how you can use the Terminal to SSH into a web-server. I’m using my website’s hosting server for illustration purposes. All you will need to do, is change the server name to your server and use your login credentials.

1. Launch Terminal.

2. Use the following command to connect to your web server using SSH:

ssh server_name -p port_number -l login_id

• In my case, the command becomes:
  ssh server208.web-hosting.com -p 21098 -l my_username

3. You will be prompted to enter your password. The typing will be hidden for security purposes.

4. Once you have entered the login password, hit Enter, and you will be connected via SSH. You can now run shell commands on your server.

2. iTerm2

iTerm2 is a Terminal replacement for Mac with a plethora of added features that the default Terminal app doesn’t offer. Notable among the various features that iTerm2 offers are:

• Support for split-windows: Multiple independent terminals in the same tab.

• Support for Annotation: Add notes and comments to shell commands that have been run.

• Instant Playback: This feature plays back a history of everything you have done on iTerm2, in case you forgot to copy a number or some detail from older commands.

• Better search: Searching on iTerm2 highlights all the matches for the word, like Safari and Chrome do.

• Mouseless Copy: You don’t need to use the mouse to copy or paste text, anymore!

There are a lot of other features that are offered by iTerm2. You can read about them on their official website. The process to SSH into a web server using iTerm2 is exactly the same as the process in Terminal, except, iTerm2 will make your life easier inside the Terminal.

The home page for a journal is the one which is seen when View Journal or Current Issue under the journal’s name on the site home page is clicked, or when a journal’s name is clicked from User Home.The Journal Home Page breaks down as follows:

Top Navigation Bar

Home and About provide information about the specific journal.

Log In and Register act as above, but redirect to the journal’s home page rather than the site home page.

User Home appears once you have logged in, and displays the user home page. This page provides links to manage your journal roles, and to manage your account.

Search provides extensive search options, but is used to search only the journal currently being viewed.

Current displays the table of contents of the current issue of the journal, if available.

Archives displays the names of previously published issues, if available. Clicking on the name of a previously published issue will display its table of contents.

An Announcements link appears on the top navigation bar if the Journal Manager has enabled announcements. Clicking on this link will access the announcements page.

Right Navigation Bar

The Open Journal Systems link will take you to the Public Knowledge Project website, which provides resources for Open Journals Systems and other related software.

The Journal Help link provides context sensitive help.

The form under User will allow you to log in if you have a username and password. After logging in you will be taken to your User Home page. Once logged in, there will be links under User to a list of journals you have registered to; to your profile; and to log out.

Language allows you to choose a language supported by OJS.

The search field under Journal Content allows you to search the journal’s content in a basic variety of ways. For a more comprehensive search, click the Search link on the top navigation bar.

Font Size allows you to make the site font size smaller or bigger.

There is also information for Authors, Readers and Librarians listed in the right navigation bar.

ISSN (print) 1736-6518. ISSN (online) 2228-0987. JEF is a joint publication of the University of Tartu, the Estonian National Museum and the Estonian Literary Museum.