In 1995, when I was a university student in Helsinki, I developed a security protocol to protect data-in-transit as it moved throughout our network. I named it the “secure shell,” or SSH for short.

The Secure Shell — SSH — allows you to send secure, encrypted, communications between computers that is nearly impossible to crack. Here's how to use it in macOS. Before personal computers, people ...

If you need to get ssh keys copied from client to server but ssh-copy-id isn't an option, you'll have to go the manual route. Here's how to do it. Secure Shell is one of those tools you will ...

Open the Windows 10 Start menu and search for “Apps & Features”. In the “Apps & Features” heading, click “Optional Features”. Scroll down the list to see if “OpenSSH Client” is listed. If not, click ...

Out of the box, secure shell is fairly secure. With the help of ssh key authentication, you can lock down secure shell so that only specific machines can log in. Here's how. If you’re a Linux ...

If you do your work via cloud computing, accessing remote servers that are not on your current or home network, you are probably already familiar with SSH or Secure Shell Keys. Because SSH keys are ...

The command will move through a series of prompts. First, it will ask where you want to save the keys. Unless you are an expert, accept the default. This will create an “id_rsa” and an “id_rsa.pub” ...

Using a set of public/private keys to allow you to log into a remote Linux system or run commands using ssh without a password can be very convenient, but setup is just tad tricky. Here's how and a ...

I find myself hopping around from computer to computer occasionally - usually one that I haven't used before. I've got MobileMe syncing almost everything that I need (mail settings, bookmarks, and ...

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 ...