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 ...

SSH, or secure shell, is a Unix shell used for secure communication between two networked computers. You may wish to securely download files from a remote system ...

Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard "ssh" command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a terminal prompt that you can use to run ...

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I'm logging into my OpenBSD box from my Slackware box and I want to copy some files from that box to the Linux box I'm on. What is the command to do that? I've tried rcp and scp but I can't seem to ...

It's a great NAS with great hardware, but the lack of SSH access is frustrating.

I work remotely on my University work from home. I SSH into the University's Solaris machines. One cool thing I've found is that when using Linux and using the command "xemacs file" it actually opens ...

Secure ShellFish is available to install now from the Apple App Store. Very easy to use, includes SSH Key Authentication, port forwarding, and other features that are ...

If you have more than one Linux computer, you probably use ssh all the time. It is a great tool, but I’ve always found one thing about it strange. Despite having file transfer capabilities in the form ...

Unless you jailbreak your iPhone, the file system will remain off limits as Apple intended. Even so, many people who jailbreak their phones stop with Cydia. There are, however, a few reasons you might ...