SSH-Capable Applications

Below is a partial list of client software that supports the SSH protocol. Note that some of the following may support only the Version 1 SSH protocols, which is not supported at NERSC as of October 1, 2003.

NERSC neither recommends nor supports any product listed below. However, NERSC consultants will attempt to help users successfully connect using their software package.

UNIX

• Source code for the client and server are available for free. See the OpenSSH website.
• WRQ offers a commercial UNIX client
• SSH Communications Security is a commercial product, but is free for non-commerical use.

PCs

Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP Commercial Products:

• WRQ SSH supports SSH protocol 2 and sftp file transfers.
• SecureCRT from Van Dyke Technologies, Inc. supports the sftp protocol via its vcp command.
• SSH Communications Security offers a free client for non-commercial use.

Windows Free Software:

• PuTTY, Simon Tatham's 32-bit Windows SSH client supports scp and sftp file transfers (version 0.50 and above).
• FiSSH, Mass Confusion's 32-bit SSH client for Windows

Macintosh

Commercial Products:

• Apple includes a modern version of OpenSSH with OS X: see the man pages for more info. Updates are included in their frequent software updates to OS X.
• Gideon, an sftp client for Mac OS X.

Free Software and Shareware:

• Another OS X narive sftp is available at http://pro.wanadoo.fr/chombier/MacSFTP/SFTP_info.html.
• NiftyTelnet 1.1r3 SSH is Jonas Wallden's implementation of SSH1 for Macintosh and appears to support scp file transfers. Note: it is not clear whether this software handles Version 2 of the SSH protocol.

VAX/VMS

See FISH, an SSH client for VMS.

BeOS

See: BeOS SSH client (no version 2 support yet).

PalmOS

Top Gun SSH.