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Five SSH-ready clients for Windows and UNIX

By Jack Wallen October 22, 2012, 4:31 AM PDT

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Five SSH-ready clients for Windows and UNIX

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ntEvery IT admin I know depends upon a secure shell at some point. It’s the single best way to remotely administer a Linux or UNIX-based server. Secure shell allows you shell access to your servers, without the concern for transmitting plain-text passwords. Of course, shell access isn’t limited to UNIX-like servers. Even Windows machines can run a secure shell server.

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ntBut what about gaining access to those secure shell-enabled servers? What is the best method? Well, that all depends – do you like the command line, or do you like a nice GUI tool? The good news, you can have them both. In fact, I have found five of the best SSH-ready clients. All of these clients are free and very easy to use. You’ll find clients for both Windows and Linux.

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nt1. PuTTY

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ntPuTTY is probably the single most popular secure shell client for the Windows platform. It’s incredibly easy to use, allows for the saving of profiles, and can be used as a portable tool.

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Five SSH-ready clients for Windows and UNIX

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ntPuTTY is not only free, but open source. PuTTY can also do telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP. PuTTY has built in support for the secure copy (scp) program.

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nt2. SecPanel

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ntSecPanel is a solid GUI secure shell tool for UNIX. SecPanel supports ssh, scp, and X Windows tunnelling. This ssh tool also has a built-in key generator and retains a history of your connections and key operations.

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Five SSH-ready clients for Windows and UNIX

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ntAlthough the GUI does feel a bit outdated (depending upon the distribution you are using), it is a solid client for connecting to servers.

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nt3. Private Shell

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ntPrivate Shell is the only client on the list with a price tag. At $49.95 for a commercial license ($29.95 for a non-commercial license), it might seem a bit steep. But when you look at the features (terminal connection, file transfer connection, database connection (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, DB2), CVS/SVN repository access, SOCKS5 proxy, e-mail server connection, VNC server connection, X11 tunneling, and more), you quickly understand why it has the associated price.

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ntTo get those features on any other client, you’d wind up having to bundle other apps together. Private Shell also has an outstanding, user-friendly GUI. Private Shell is available only for Windows.

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nt4. Terra Term

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ntTerra Term has been around for quite some time. However, the current version is recognized by the project’s original creator.

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ntTerra Term offers features such as: Serial port connections, TCP/IP (telnet, SSH-1/2) connections, IPv6 communication, VT100 emulation and selected VT200/300 emulation, TEK4010 emulation, file transfer protocols, its own scripting language, Japanese, English, Russian and Korean character sets, and UTF-8 character encoding. This is another Windows-only client.

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nt5. Linux terminal

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ntLinux terminal. That’s right; I cannot create a list of secure shell clients without including the Linux command line equivalent. By default, nearly every Linux distribution has a secure shell client (ssh is the command). To connect to a server, you would typically open up a terminal window and issue a command similar to ssh -v -l jlwallen 192.168.1.1.

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