for logging in and administrating your server?

I need a better one than what I am using, I want know what others are using free or paid.

Monte

SecureCRT is the best IMHO. Its not free though, It will cost you a 100 USDs. Putty is pretty descent and is free, You can probablly plenty more on CNet and Tucows

PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)

Richard

I was using Tera Term Pro for a long time until I found the nice and clean package SSH Secure Shell 3.1 --- I love this thing. Its got bookmarks and a neat little secure FTP program. Woooooopie! ;-)

I looked on Tucows and Cnet, hundreds of em.

So figured I would ask some people that really use them which is best.

Monte

SecureCRT here too.
http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/index.html

Excellent piece of software and worth every dime.

Greg Moore

I use the free, non-commercial version from ssh.com. I think it is a fine piece of software, and it includes a SFTP client, perfect for file transfer. (although I wish it could be a bit more powerful).

Anyone knows whether other ssh client support SFTP? (or just FTP for that matter).

Thanks,

Peter

I feel openSSH is one of the best out there.

Regards,

Jeff

Putty rules!

We have used SecureCRT forever now. Great product.

SecureCRT all the way. :)

I like Putty :)

I've fallen in love with F-secure SSH client, also not free, though you can download a 30 day trial version...

I tried SecureCRT, but then I found Putty, I don't see what the point of paying for SecureCRT when Putty does all the things you need it to do, for free and it fits on a floppy (Handy when you're out on the road and haven't got your laptop etc. with you).

Putty only works on windows platforms.

Well, he can still carry Putty to other Windows station/laptop.

Peter

Exactly :) And the chances of finding a PC that isn't windows when you're caught out is pretty slim.

I've been using putty for a long time now, I like it quite a bit.

putty all the way.

With Windows, I'd use PuTTY. When I was researching for the best SSH clients a few months ago, PuTTY was definitely the best. It is free, it has the most complete terminal control, it has the standard way of copy pasting, not Windows way :). SecureCRT had problems with cursor keys, function keys and some problems with displaying a few characters. So did teraterm, but I can't remember the specifics. PuTTY was not perfect when compared to the standard OpenSSH, but with Windows, it was definitely the best. Todays, it has almost all the features found in OpenSSH SSH client, the only thing missing from it is a graphical SCP/SFTP client, it is awkward to do things from command line in Windows.

Putty

nt! :)

If you need to tunnel through a firewall using socks5 then I recommend Absolute Telnet.

SecureCRT has no probs what so ever for me and if you are like me and have several boxes to manage its a quick and easy solutionas you can save all your logins and customize the way securecrt handles each session. It also supports VT100, VT102, VT220, ANSI, SCO ANSI and Linux console emulation. Even supports emacs emulation. Tunneling thru a firewall using socks5 is an option as well. It also supports remote X11 Fowarding(something some ppl need but I personally don't use, port forwarding including remote forwarding and much more. Oops I am rambling lol. Happy deciding

putty :):D ;) :stickout

Originally posted by priyadi
...PuTTY .... the only thing missing from it is a graphical SCP/SFTP client, it is awkward to do things from command line in Windows.

A great graphical SCP graphical client for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/ME is WinSCP.
Homesite: http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/index.php

Originally posted by ellebi


A great graphical SCP graphical client for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/ME is WinSCP.
Homesite: http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/index.php

Cool! Thanks for the info...

gonna have to rack up another vote for teraterm+ssh plugin
been usin it for ...... atleast 4 years now

Originally posted by ckpeter
I use the free, non-commercial version from ssh.com. I think it is a fine piece of software, and it includes a SFTP client, perfect for file transfer. (although I wish it could be a bit more powerful).

Anyone knows whether other ssh client support SFTP? (or just FTP for that matter).

Thanks,

Peter

For file transfers, VanDyke Software's SecureFX rocks. Find it here: http://www.vandyke.com/products/securefx/index.html

It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTP over SSH.

Dan

Puttyyyyyyy :)

Putty for Windows..
Linux comes with SSH already installed so it's not an issue and I've never tried connecting using an orange, sorry an apple

SecureCRT great piece of software!

Originally posted by CagedTornado
For file transfers, VanDyke Software's SecureFX rocks. Find it here: http://www.vandyke.com/products/securefx/index.html

It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTP over SSH.
SecureFX is good but it won't let you in to your server as root. SecureShell from ssh.com is the only one that allows that as far as I am aware of.

ZOC ... absolutely rules. I use it since the beginning of the 90ies when I had a Bulletin Board (Mailbox, pre Internet era).

I have it in a newer version now though... :rolleyes:

SecureCRT is the way to go. I've tried about 5 other SSH clients and SecureCRT came out way a head of the rest.

'man ssh'

BTW, you can just crack SecureCRT.

:)

Some of us support the hard work companies put into there software

I use putty too!

I agree about cracking...

Especially when your a business, not very nice to steal IMHO :)

I evaluated the newest SecureCRT a while ago, just to find out why a lot of people seems to like it so much. I know, everybody else here are using it. The first impression told me lots of things has improved since the last time I used it. However there are still some issues that bothered me too much:

- by default it won't display color
- when I configured it to use ANSI colors, somehow it won't display some characters correctly, like those used by mc to draw its borders
- alt keys by default doesn't work, like when using M-b and M-f to move cursor between words from within readline applications or emacs
- mouse clicking used in apps like mc or vim doesn't work, and I couldn't find a switch to enable it.
- selecting by using mouse doesn't automatically copy it
- right click doesn't do paste
- shift pgup and shift pgdn don't scroll the terminal window
- its terminal is very slow compared to putty or standard xterm

I think that's all. Some of them can be fixed from the config screen. However it is still much easier to download 300 KB of putty.exe from another machine.

SSH Secure Shell from ssh.com

it's niiiiice. I'm a student and they prepaid for the full version for us :)

we use securecrt too...works for all our needs and then some.

putty...... rocks

Originally posted by mistral1

SecureFX is good but it won't let you in to your server as root. SecureShell from ssh.com is the only one that allows that as far as I am aware of.

All SSH clients will let you log in as root directly (in fact, I'm logged in directly as root now with SecureCRT). It's more of a matter of server configuration. OpenSSH can be told to not allow root login or require RSA keys for root login, so no worries :)

hehe,

I'd config that to not allow root logins - SU is the way......

Just me being paranoid....

I use this one from http://www.siliconcircus.com/

Free version with adverts - so try it.

then a few bucks to get rid of them.

I too, am a putty fan!

I use putty and Javassh. Nice applet lets you ssh from everywhere. Even from you vacation. ;)

Chang

Originally posted by chang69
I use putty and Javassh. Nice applet lets you ssh from everywhere. Even from you vacation. ;)

Chang

The problem with (unsigned) java ssh applets is it only lets you connect to the host it gets downloaded from. So, you need to put the applet on every host you want to ssh into. And it is not possible to ssh into host that doesn't run a web server.

Originally posted by priyadi


The problem with (unsigned) java ssh applets is it only lets you connect to the host it gets downloaded from. So, you need to put the applet on every host you want to ssh into. And it is not possible to ssh into host that doesn't run a web server.

You can just ssh to one server. Once you connected to that server you can use shell ssh to access another server. Isn't this simple? :stickout