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.

Jack Wallen shows you how to use Mosh to keep an SSH connection alive, so you can work with your Secure Shell connection uninterrupted.

Even so, it is still relatively easy to use OpenSSH to establish a connection to a Linux system. You can launch OpenSSH through PowerShell by entering the SSH command.

The SSH tunnel will virtually connect port 2110 on our local machine to the POP3 port (110) on the remote server. Remember, for our example the SSH and email server are the same machine.

If a fear of the command line has prevented you from making use of the more secure sftp, Jack Wallen wants to show you how you can easily connect to that remote server, with a simple file manager.

To utilize this, after entering the command, go into your application settings and change your network options to connect to 127.0.0.1 on port 9070. ssh -ND 9070 <username>@shellmix.com ...

Image: Jack Wallen Using your new SSH connection 1. Select the connection to be used Click on the remote server you want to connect to from under the SSH section in the terminal app.

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