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SSH Clients for Various Platforms
In the Clark University CS/Math Lab, you can use SSH to remotely login to the machines, do work, and transfer files to and from the remote machine. What differentiates SSH from things like telnet, rlogin, ftp, and other such programs is that all the data is encrypted. So whereas an ftp program, or a telnet program could allow for people to read information such as your password since it is sent unencrypted, SSH encrypts that traffic to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks. Additionally, SSH provides a myriad of secure tunneling capabilities, as well as a variety of authentication methods. One of the tunneling features of SSH is that it allows unix users(or anyone with an Xserver) to run graphical programs like Code Warrior, and Xemacs on Babbage, but have the interface for the program appear on the users' home computers.
Unices/Linux - most of the open-source unices include OpenSSH. If it is not installed on your system, you can use "apt-get install openssh" from Debian, check the installation CDs in Mandrake, RedHat, Suse and Slackware. If you use any of the BSDs, you can use the ports collection to obtain the software. Any other version of Unix probably has a version of OpenSSH ported to it.
MacOS X - MacOS X comes with OpenSSH so just open Terminal and type "ssh [username]@babbage.clarku.edu".
MacOS - "Nifty Telnet" is a free SSH program for MacOS.
Windows - The ssh.com client is a good windows client.
Java - You can try using Mindterm's Java Applet which I have personally tested under Netscape 4.77 for Linux, Mozilla M18 for Linux, and Konqueror for Linux.
Other - If you don't use any of the above, you can check and see if there is a port of OpenSSH to your system.
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