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blank How do I install and and configure MacSSH PPC?
These are instructions how to install and configure MacSSH PPC ("classic" MacOS on PowerPC CPUs).
  1. Download/expand MacSSHPPC.
  2. In MacSSH PPC folder, run "MacSSH PPC" application.
  3. After application is running, go to Favorites, Edit Favorites, and edit the settings.
  4. To connect to the chemistry server via SSH, enter chemistry.ohio-state.edu as Host Name.
  5. Under the security tab, pick ssh2 (Secure Shell) as the protocol, and enter your username on the chemistry server in the appropriate field. Do not enter your chemistry user account password.
  6. Click on the SSH2 tab; you get a choice of encryption, authentication, and compression methods to use, but you can stick with the defaults. Click on Initialize SSH... (again, you get some choices, but you'll be OK sticking to the defaults) and generate keys (you'll be asked to enter a private key passphrase -- you may enter any string you'd like for this).
  7. You can now exit the Edit Favorites window.
  8. You should now be able to SSH to chemistry. Go to File, Open Connection... and you should see chemistry.ohio-state.edu as the default host name, with the Secure Shell v2 checkbox checked. Click on Connect.
  9. You may get the prompt "the key for this host has never been seen before. Are you sure you want to trust it?", and additional info re host key fingerprint. If this is the first time you're trying to connect to a given host (e.g., chemistry), this is normal, and you should choose "Accept and Save". You'll then be sked for your private key passphrase (that you previously created in step 4c; enter it & click OK. You should *then* be asked for your chemistry account's password; enter it and click OK. You're now logged into chemistry -- answer the remaining prompts (from what type of terminal are you loggin in? (answer: vt100); press your erase key), and you'll come to the command line.
  10. That's all there is to setting up MacSSH PPC for SSH'ing to the chemistry server. If you want to do port forwarding, additional steps are necessary -- this is briefly outlined in the QuickStart document that came with MacSSH PPC. This document gives much useful info; you should read it, if you've not done so already.

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