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Mac Server Series: Enable and Use SSH

Brian Stucki — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:51:46 +0000

Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices. It’s used mostly to access Unix or Linux commands, and is a secure way to send text like passwords and other private data.

In this video, we focus on SSH We look at enabling the SSH service, connecting to the server, and we show a couple uses for it. These uses include restarting the Screen Sharing service, and connecting with SFTP.

In the video, I mention a few links. I’ll list them here:

Enable Screen Sharing or ARD Via SSH
Transmit FTP client

And now a link to the video: Enable and Use SSH (option+click to download)

If you have questions or comments on the video, you can send them via twitter (@macminicolo) or using our contact page.

Seven iPhone Apps For IT

Brian Stucki — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:00:31 +0000

If you’re reading this blog, you probably have a Mac server setup somewhere that requires your attention occasionally. For those of you with an iPhone, I hope to help you out.

Over on the Macminicolo.net site, I’ve put together a list of seven iPhone applications that I use every day to work with the Mac servers and IT work in general. You can read it here.

Using A Secure SSH Tunnel To Your Mac Server

Brian Stucki — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:33:53 +0000

When I travel with my Mac, I’m continually connecting to different wifi hot spots to check back on the data center and work with any support emails. As you can imagine, doing these two things, I’ve tried to be very careful not to use terribly private passwords and URL’s. You just never know if you can trust the network you’re using.

A couple months ago, I set up an SSH tunnel using these instructions. This allows for me to send all traffic encrypted to my Mac mini in the data center. This keeps things safe.

If you find yourself traveling often, perhaps this will be of use to you as well.

AjaxTerm: A Web Based Terminal

Brian Stucki — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:48:59 +0000

Ajaxterm is a web based terminal. It is incredibly easy to install it’s great to have in a bind.

For instance, if you were to lock yourself out of your server, you could re-enable screen sharing with this terminal. It’s also useful for when you don’t have a computer near that has a Terminal application but you need to do some quick work on your server.

AjaxTerm is free and can be downloade here.

(Thanks Nicholas for the heads up.)