Connecting to PIRL with Secure Shell

If you have used telnet, you can think of Secure Shell (abbreviated SSH) as a replacement. In fact, it has many of the same command line switches that act identically to those of telnet on UNIX systems. Additionally, there are many SSH clients available for various platforms.

No matter what kind of platform that you run SSH from to connect to PIRL, we suggest using the SSH 2 protocal to connect as that is more secure than the original SSH protocal.

When connecting to a PIRL machine for the first time, please make sure that the SSH fingerprint is correct for the machine that you are connecting to.

UNIX Systems

If you are on a UNIX system, we suggest using the OpenSSH client. But you can use the SSH client from ssh.com instead if you like. If your system doesn't have an SSH client, then bug your system administrator about it. In addition to the SSH client, we also recommend using the SFTP and the SCP programs for Secure FTP and Secure copying.

Macintosh Systems

If you are running OS X on your Macintosh, congratulations. It comes with a version of SSH installed. If you are running some other version of the Macintosh operating system on your machine, we have two choices for you here, but there are sure to be many out there.

macppc.sit - For the PPC Macintosh architecture. This will run on machines such as the G3s and G4s. Built from OpenSSH, the source available from: www.macssh.com.
mac68k.sit - For the m68k Macintosh architecture. This is the same program as the macppc.sit, just compiled on a different architecture. This will run on machines such as the Mac Classics. The source code and FAQ are at the same locations as above.

The install on the Macs should be fairly straight-forward, just put the .sit file on your desktop and double-click. Follow the instructions.

Microsoft Windows Systems

If you are running one of the Microsoft Operating systems, one of the following should work for you.

ssh_win.exe - SSH for windows, from ssh.com. This is probably the best client to use for windows. The source and some README info is available here: ftp://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh. You should be sure to read the License: ftp://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh/LICENSE. The User Manual for the previous version (3.0) is available here: http://www.ssh.com/products/ssh/winhelp30
putty_windows.exe - Windows SSH implementation using OpenSSH. You can get the source from: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html.
SSHWin-2.4.0 - Windows NT implementation of SSH, available as site licensed software from CCIT.
Using Reflection X - Reflection X is an X11 tunneler, and this README has instructions for using Reflection X along with the above SSH clients.

The install on the Windows machines should be pretty easy, just save to your desktop and double click on the icon. Follow the instructions.

The University of Arizona Lunar & Planetary Lab
PIRL Webmaster
06 Aug 2002