PuTTY is a Windows application for connecting to SSH servers that has a Mac port. Plus, it’s free, and already on your Mac! For us, an SSH client would have to be very impressive to beat it. But if you do have some background in these areas, you should be fine.
If you don’t know a ton about coding, or haven’t used Terminal much before, it might be a tough SSH client to use. We have a Mac Terminal commands cheat sheet if you need ideas or reminders of what you can input and run via command line in Terminal. There is no graphical system for this-Terminal is text based-so you type out your commands and hit Enter to access, run, and make changes on another system. With Terminal open, you can log into a remote computer via an SSH connection by inputting ssh where user is replaced with your username for the system, and IP-Address is replaced with the IP address of the remote server.įrom there you can input commands to access files and run programs on the other computer.
This application is Terminal, which you can usually find by heading to your Applications folder and looking inside Utilities, though there are a few ways to open Terminal on a Mac. You Mac comes with an application that will let you access and run SSH built into it.
