SSH Client - (newbie need help)

[Konrad Heuer]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Bryce wrote:

> Im a newbie to FreeBSD and I need to run an SSH client
> to connect to the Solaris server at my University. I
> was previously using Putty on WinXP, however there
> appears to be a bug in the current putty port which
> causes it to crash before exchanging keys if the
> servers key is not cached.
>
> I googled looking for other clients and found secpanel
> which sounded good but it requires
> /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84 which appears to be
> broken.... arrggghh!
>
> Can someone please point me to either a good
> alternative SSH client for FreeBSD or help me to
> overcome these problems to install either putty or
> secpanel?

Why don't you use just the ssh client that comes with the base system?
Log into your FreeBSD box and type
  ssh hostname
to connect to any other system.

Regards

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