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 ...

Recently at our local (Phoenix) Free Software Stammtisch, we were talking about security. I was surprised to find that no one else realized you can ssh safely across a compromised host to another ...

Windows can now behave like a Linux machine.

How to use SSH to proxy through a Linux jump host Your email has been sent Secure Shell (SSH) includes a number of tricks up its sleeve. One particular trick you may not know about is the ability to ...

My server workflow finally feels modern.

If you keep wiping and re-installing the operating system on IoT devices such as Raspberry Pis, SSH will get cranky because the board's public key will change Those of you new to Internet of Things ...

If you have more than one Linux computer, you probably use ssh all the time. It is a great tool, but I’ve always found one thing about it strange. Despite having file transfer capabilities in the form ...

One piece of software I regularly use on various systems is SSH. It is a very powerful and useful protocol for remote and encrypted connectivity internal or external to your network. One thing that ...