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Using SSH client applications

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Using SSH client applications

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- [Instructor] Most users of SSH will use the client in a text based shell in a terminal, but that's not the only way to use SSH. While all modern operating systems include an SSH client that can be used in their shell, older versions of Windows didn't have this. And so on systems older than Windows 10, we'd need to use a third party SSH client. There are many of these and one popular option is called puTTY. And there are many applications for mobile devices that offer the ability to use SSH on the go. Two of my favorites for the iOS ecosystem are Prompt and Blink. These are paid apps and there are many other paid and free apps available for both iOS and Android. Prompt, as we see here allows us to quickly connect to a host or to save host profiles that we can then tap on in order to connect. Blink on the other hand, works like a console where we can type a connection command like SSH and then the username and host name,…

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