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 ...

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 ...

How to allow SSH connections from LAN and WAN on different ports Your email has been sent I want to pose a situation: Say you have users on your internal LAN who need to connect to your servers via ...

How to use multiplexing to speed up the SSH login process Your email has been sent How many times do you log in and out of your remote servers during the day? If you ...

I regularly log in remotely to machines on my local area network. To do that, I use secure shell (SSH). I often default to the terminal but sometimes I prefer a graphical user interface (GUI) app that ...

I'm trying to set up my Mac so that I can connect to it remotely from a Windows box via SSH using a key pair, rather than logging in with a username/password. I've Googled the absolute shit out of ...

"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of the oncoming train" ~ Robert Lowell. Oh yes, another good quote. This post is on SSH tunneling, or as I like to call it 'Poor Man's VPN'.