
Once you've entered this information as shown in Figure 7-3, click the Connect button. Once you've added this information, add the host to a list of Favorites so you can quickly connect to that site in the future, instead of entering all of its information each time. Under Advanced SFTP Options, you can enable features such as compression or enter additional SSH options. To use Fugu, enter the IP address or domain name, remote username, port, and directory that you want to access. When Fugu is launched, you will be greeted with a dialog window that includes a file browser showing your local Home directory, and blank fields that you must fill in to make an sftp connection to a remote site, as illustrated in Figure 7-3.

Support for connections to alternate portsįavorites list for frequently visited hosts Permissions, owner and group modification As noted on its web site (which should always be consulted for the most up-to-date version and information), Fugu has many useful features including, but not limited to, the following:ĭrag and drop files on its interface to upload/download files

Fugu is developed and provided as freeware by the University of Michigan's Research Systems Unix Group.
#Gftp for mac mac os x#
gftp can be installed on Mac OS X using Fink.Īnother option is Fugu (), which is a graphical interface to the OpenSSH program bundled with Mac OS X.

One such frontend, familiar to Unix/Linux users, is Brian Masney's GTK+/glib-based gftp (). Although the SSH tools are fully functional from the command line, several GUIs are available for SSH. As noted earlier in the book, OpenSSH is bundled with Mac OS X. OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH suite of network connectivity tools that provides encrypted replacements for telnet, ftp, rlogin, rcp, and more.
