Tunneling with SSH

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Tunneling Using Cygwin: The Desktop Unix Emulator

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Choosing the Desktop Terminal

Platforms

Linux, Unix, Solaris. Linux supports SSH. To connect using SSH, see the "Tunneling Using Cygwin" section below.

Macintosh. In important regards, procedures for tunneling with a Mac client terminal resemble those for Windows clients. Mac users can download and install any number of free or for-fee terminals, the most popular being MacSSH, which is characteristically easy to use, is free, and offers superior performance for SSH1 connections.

NiftyTelnet 1.1 SSH, a fast and easy-to-use telnet and SSH1 client is also free. It supports effortless scp (secure copying), as well.

Mac OS X, based on FreeBSD and the Mach 3 kernel, has SSH built in and is constantly updated. You can also obtain and use Data Fellows' F-Secure SSH, a for-fee (see below) client create a desktop terminal allowing you to tunnel to the CVS server. F-Secure SSH can be obtained at: http://www.DataFellows.com. For SSH1, you will want F-Secure SSH v.1.02; v.2.1 is for SSH2 connections only--i.e., those requiring encrypted certificates, or keys.

Windows. If you are using Windows (NT or 9x or 2K), then you can use SecureCRT, F-Secure SSH, or Cygwin. Cygwin, from Cygnus Solutions, provides a nearly full Unix environment on your desktop.

In contrast, SecureCRT and F-Secure SSH only provide user-friendly terminals, i.e., they don't pretend to emulate a Unix environment. Both F-Secure SSH and SecureCRT cost money ($100 for SecureCRT, $150 for F-Secure SSH), although a free, 30-day trial version is available for each. Of all, Cygwin has the added value of not just being free and very powerful, but also open source and constantly improved upon.

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