

Use notepad or another text editor on the “known_hosts” file. A UNC VPN connection is still required to access ruby from off-campus. You must delete any SSH key reference to “” in order to re-connect successfully.įor Window and Mac, edit or delete the file below. If you signed into prior to April 2nd 2021, you have outdated SSH keys. SFTP is a way to transfer files in a secure manner between a local and a remote system. Apple macOS and Windows 10 have built-in SSH clients. Multiple alternative SSH and SFTP clients exist and free clients such as PuTTY and Filezilla, WinSCP, and Cyberduck are available for download. And it keeps getting better every few weeks or months.SSH is a command-line utility designed for logging into and executing commands on a remote system ( for example). (It's possible Terminal does some of the things I mention here-it's been so long since I've used it that I don't recall, but when I switched I paid close attention to the differences and there were lots of advantages to iTerm. I've been using it for years now and have never missed Terminal. Development is pretty active, but documentation seems to lag behind. Some are mentioned here but some are not, such as co-processes, triggers,smart selection, semantic history, and so on. paste history (a good complement to the shells' command histories)Īnd a lot more.a full-screen view (and you can choose from either its own or OS X's built-in full-screen mode I greatly prefer iTerm's own full-screen mode, since it doesn't force you to move to a new 'Space', thus allowing Command-Tab to still work properly).Terminal-level auto-completion (I don't use this feature so I can't detail how it has advantages over shell-level autocompletion: especially if you use the fish shell or zsh, then it may not be better).


Split panes (the sort of thing you can do in GNU screen or tmux, but at the level of the terminal emulator rather than in a program running on the server).Support for 256 colors (you'll never go back to 16 colors after using 256).While the original iTerm had a tabbed interface before Terminal did, iTerm 2 again eclipses Terminal by adding: The best GUI application for SSH (and everything else you can do on the command line) is iTerm 2.
