A list of bofth free and commercial software to provide secure remote shells and file transfers on Macintosh and Windows clients. All of the Remote Shell programs listed support X-forwarding to some degree except for NiftyTelnet. In several cases, you must be running the current version to get the X-forwarding support.
| MacOS 7 through 9 (Classic) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software (version) | Protocol | Cost | ||
| Remote Shell | MacSSH (2.1fc3) | SSH 2 | free | |
| An open-source TELNET terminal emulation application with SSH2 protocol support released under the GNU General Public License. The source code is available via SourceForge. MacOS 7.5.1 or higher. Doesn't currently work under MacOSX with SSH, unsecure TELNET works fine. | ||||
| Remote Shell File Transfer | NiftyTelnet SSH (1.1r3) | SSH 1.5 | free | |
| An enhanced version of the original NiftyTelnet application which adds support for encrypted terminal sessions. Also, "does a fine job of scp." Runs under OSX in 'Classic' emulation mode. | ||||
| File Transfer | MacSFTP (1.0.6) | SSH 1 & 2 | ~ $25 | |
| Based on OpenSSH, transfer files using the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) subset of SSH. MacOS 8.1 or higher. | ||||
| Macintosh OSX | ||||
| Software (version) | Protocol | Cost | ||
| Remote Shell | ssh (3.4p1) | SSH 1.5 & 2 | built-in | |
| The Unix command line-based OpenSSH client included with OSX. Use -X option to turn on X-forwarding. | ||||
| File Transfer | scp (3.4p1) | SSH 1.5 & 2 | built-in | |
| The Unix command line-based OpenSSH client included with OSX. | ||||
| File Transfer | sftp (3.4p1) | SSH 1.5 & 2 | built-in | |
| An interactive file transfer program, similar to ftp (except missing mget/mput), which performs all operations over an encrypted ssh transport. Included with OSX. | ||||
| File Transfer | Fugu (1.1.0) | SFTP, SSH 1.5 & 2 | free | |
| Primarily a graphical drag and drop sftp frontend to the command line utility it also includes support for scp file transfers, and the ability to create secure tunnels via ssh. Requires Mac OS X 10.2.3 or newer, with BSD subsystem installed (included in the default install). Supports Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. An Apple Design Award winner! | ||||
| File Transfer | RBrowser (3.3.2) | SSH 1.2 & 2 | ~ $29 | |
| Originally developed for the NeXT, provides a GUI interface to distributed file transfers and file related operations, simplifying access to files scattered across the Internet. Includes FTP, SFTP and SSH file transfer. Use version 3.2.2 for MacOSX 10.2, version 3.3.2 for MacOS 10.3 The $29 price is for the basic software, there is also a $49 professional version with a $39 educational price. | ||||
| File Transfer | Interarchy (6.2) | SSH 2 | ~ $45 | |
| For OSX, MacOS 9 and MacOS 8.5+, allows you to get and post data to any server that has an Internet connection. Supports the most common Internet protocols including FTP, HTTP, SSH and many others. (Formerly called Anarchie.) | ||||
| Windows | ||||
| Software (version) | Protocol | Cost | ||
| Remote Shell | SecureCRT (4.0.3) | SSH 1 & 2 | site licensed | |
| SecureCRT provides remote access, data tunneling and file transfer with the strong security of SSH2. Version 4.0 provides a new solution for public-key management. No cost to Stanford faculty, staff & students for University-related work. | ||||
| Remote Shell | PuTTY (beta 0.53) | SSH 1 & 2 | free | |
| A free implementation of TELNET and SSH for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. SSH 2 support has been available in PuTTY since version 0.50, however, the default protocol is SSH 1. | ||||
| File Transfer | SecureFX (2.1.3) | SSH2 | site licensed | |
| Uses SFTP over SSH, supports non-secure FTP for backward compatibility and can import WS_FTP session properties. No cost to Stanford faculty, staff & students for University-related work. The Stanford version is registered -- the 30-day evaluation mentioned in the Welcome message is not applicable, see the ITSS help page for SecureFX. | ||||
| File Transfer | WinSCP (3.4.2) | SSH 1 & 2 | free | |
| A freeware client for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/ME. RSA authentication is implemented for SSH1 only. | ||||
| File Transfer | Secure iXplorer Pro (1.27) | SSH 1 & 2 | ~ $30 | |
| A GUI tightly integrated with PuTTY making it very easy for you to copy files or open a session to any of the hosts in your list. | ||||
| File Transfer | Secure Shell for Workstations (3.2) | SSH 1 & 2 | ~ $140 | |
| Offers terminal emulation as well as an integrated secure remote file access with a graphical user interface. Also includes command line tools for terminal emulation and file transfer. | ||||
Some popular shell and file transfer programs that don't currently support SSH include: