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.

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.

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.

Connecting to FTP in the Finder In macOS's Finder you connect to an FTP server by using the Go->Connect to Server menu item in the Finder's menu bar at the top of the display.

Is it possible to configure SSH to listen for connections on both internal and external interfaces, using different ports? Jack Wallen says "yes." ...

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 ...

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