From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 06:23:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE77C16A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:23:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.8.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E665543D53 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:23:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.11/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i6N6N9Ys085900; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:23:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost)i6N6N90d085897; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:23:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:23:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: Bryce In-Reply-To: <20040723061353.98168.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040723082104.R64009@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <20040723061353.98168.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Freebsd questions Subject: Re: SSH Client - (newbie need help) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:23:12 -0000 On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Bryce wrote: > Im a newbie to FreeBSD and I need to run an SSH client > to connect to the Solaris server at my University. I > was previously using Putty on WinXP, however there > appears to be a bug in the current putty port which > causes it to crash before exchanging keys if the > servers key is not cached. > > I googled looking for other clients and found secpanel > which sounded good but it requires > /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84 which appears to be > broken.... arrggghh! > > Can someone please point me to either a good > alternative SSH client for FreeBSD or help me to > overcome these problems to install either putty or > secpanel? Why don't you use just the ssh client that comes with the base system? Log into your FreeBSD box and type ssh hostname to connect to any other system. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany