Tech Blog » SSH http://ittrainingexpert.com My Tech Journeys Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:02:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to start the SSH server on a MAC (OSX) http://ittrainingexpert.com/2010/01/how-to-start-the-ssh-server-on-a-mac-osx/ http://ittrainingexpert.com/2010/01/how-to-start-the-ssh-server-on-a-mac-osx/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:02:06 +0000 expert http://ittrainingexpert.com/2010/01/how-to-start-the-ssh-server-on-a-mac-osx/ SSH is a fantastic facility for remotely managing your Mac.

This is very easy to enable, you just need to go to

System Preferences –>

mac system preferences icon

 

Select Sharing under Internet & Wireless

 

 Sharing under Internet & Wireless mac (2)

 

Select Remote Login

 

remote login mac

 

 

Now it’s testing time,

1.Test to make sure that the SSH server is running

netstat -ta | grep ssh

you should see some entries listed as below.

 

netstat mac

2. Now that you know that the SSH server is running, you can do a quick test on your own mac by logging into the ssh server using the loop back address 127.0.0.1

ssh yourusername@127.0.0.1

 

ssh mac

 

 

As always please leave a comment below if you need any assistance with doing this on a Mac.

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