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 ...

Stuck SSH session? Press Enter, type ~. to close frozen SSH instantly. Learn all SSH escape sequences most users never discover.

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 ...

When connecting to a system remotely using SSH (Secure Shell), usually you provide the SSH command string to log in to the system and then execute commands on the remote system using the current SSH ...

Because Linux is a deep operating system, we often use a miniscule portion of a tool’s features. I, for one, use awk primarily to isolate columns that cut can’t find, though in fact awk is a ...

Jack Wallen takes a look at a stripped-down Android SSH client that will get you quickly connected to your server without unnecessary bells and whistles. Let me set the stage for you. You’re on ...

I often have my Macbook Air ssh'd to a work machine, running tmux on the remote machine. If I put it to sleep for a while then wake it back up, the ssh connection is unresponsive, and after a minute ...

Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...