GUI-based SSH1/2 client for OSX

Sep 20, '01 09:34:17PM

Contributed by: victory

For a while now I've been hoping someone would come out with a GUI-based SSH terminal app for OSX. MacSSH and NiftyTerm actually seem to work just fine under Classic, but I was hoping for a native solution to turn up. Naturally one can always open shell and start the default OpenSSH client. It's slightly cumbersome but I guess if you're doing remote terminal logins in the first place, you're not exactly adverse to extra typing. =-) Additionally, someone here posted a great hint about making Finder-launchable SSH shell login scripts.

Anyway, there's been a Java-based SSH app out there called Mindterm. I never thought to give it a try until now. The company's webpage states that it's free for non-commercial use and while they don't explicitly say so, I found it runs fine under Mac OSX.

The only hitch is that after you uncompress the archive, you have to launch it from the shell with:

java -jar mindterm.jar
If someone who knows more about Java could figure out a way to launch it from the Finder, that would be great. (The Applet Launcher didn't seem to work)

The program is a bit flaky here and there (the built-in SFTP client stalled whenever I attempted a transfer) but it is useable and seems support the full range of ciphers and authentications usually associated with SSH1&2.

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