Re: recommendations for an SSH client?

["Hammond, Stanley" <shammond () CAPECOD EDU>]

I have used Putty on the Windows side and the command-line OpenSSH with
RHEL/Fedora/Ubuntu and Mac OS X.  If all you need is a SSH client, then
Putty "should" work across all of the platforms.  It is available for
Windows and Linux - it is in both the Ubuntu (apt-get install putty) and
Fedora (yum install putty) repositories as a binary application.  I
mentioned "should" work because on the Mac you will probably need to
compile Putty from source to get it to work.  As far as a client that
works across ALL platforms that provide SSH, SCP, SFTP I haven't heard
of anything.  WinSCP is available for Windows.  But I have generally
used CLI SCP from file transfers.

Stan Hammond
Information Security Specialist
Cape Cod Community College


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Cline
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:07 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] recommendations for an SSH client?

Greetings,

I would be interested in hearing your opinions about what SSH client you
prefer. I am particularly interested in a client that 1) is
cross-platform, 2) is supported by its vendor for the current versions
of Windows, Mac OS X, RHEL, and Ubuntu, 3) is free (as in free beer), 4)
has a GUI as opposed to a CLI, and 5) also offers the ability to
securely copy or transfer files. I am interested in seeing whether this
client could be linked from a local shareware site, as well as to
whether it could be included as part of a standard software image
package made available to faculty and staff. Many thanks.



Regards,
Tim Cline


Tim Cline
Information Security Analyst
Information Security Office / Information Technology Services The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(919) 445-9388
Tim_Cline () unc edu