Fugu: A nice graphical front-end to sftp and more...

Feb 09, '04 10:35:00AM

Contributed by: robg

Fugu imageThe macosxhints Rating:
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[Score: 9 out of 10]

Fugu is a freeware GUI front-end to the UNIX sftp, scp, and ssh protocols. Of these, the reason I use it most of the time is for its sftp support -- sftp is secure FTP, which is much like FTP except that your transmissions are encrypted, so you don't have to worry about password (or other data) intercepts while you're FTPing files back and forth.

If you've used Panic's excellent Transmit, the Fugu interface will look familiar -- a two-panel window with your stuff on the left, and the host files on the right. Drag and drop from one side to the other to upload or download files. One other nice feature is an in-program image preview -- double-click an image on a server, and it will download and then display in a small window directly within Fugu. While this won't save any download time, it's nice in that I don't have to switch apps to make sure I downloaded the right image file.

Fugu reads existing SSH connection information, so if you've already set up password-free secure connections, you won't have to re-enter your passwords to use Fugu. Overall, this is an amazingly professional piece of free software -- kudos the University of Michigan's Research Systems UNIX Group!

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