As a partner in a Web development company, one of my jobs is to manage several Windows and Linux servers. Since I rarely have physical access to any of that hardware, I rely on LogMeIn much of the ...

In the never-ending search to work smarter, not harder, few things can be simpler than entering commands on one Mac and having them pushed out across the entire LAN to multiple nodes. One of these ...

If you regularly use "ssh" to establish many remote connections, you might benefit from creating a scripted menu for yourself that contains your server connections. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

I'm trying to set up a computer to connect to a server over SSH with X11 forwarding. The basic sequence is something like this: Then I get a prompt and I enter the program name, which starts the ...

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. Before personal computers, people ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

If you have a phone running Android 15, you can enable a full-blown Linux terminal that includes many of the commands you're used to running on Linux, and I have to say that it's pretty cool. Before ...