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TouchTerm SSHCurrent Version: 2.4.2.1998

TouchTerm is the de facto standard SSH client for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

TouchTerm is a complete, polished SSH terminal application, with a slick iPhone interface that includes:

- Proven, rock-solid performance: TouchTerm is driven by the industry-standard OpenSSH open-source library, and has clocked months of daily usage by a massive user base

- Top-notch App Support: full in-App debugging logs are available, and our support team will quickly address any issues you might encounter

- RSA/DSA public key authentication

- Complete server, connection, password, and SSH Key management

- Application Lock: optionally set a master password to protect access to your account information

- Both Wi-Fi and EDGE/3G support: access and administer your servers from anywhere

- The Translucent Interface option allows using the entire screen for displaying terminal output

- Full special-key support including Ctrl, Esc, Tab, arrow, and Fn keys

- Landscape mode support, configurable font size and color

- Support for almost all commonly used international character encodings (including UTF-8, ISO-Latin 1-10, Big5, GB, and more)

POWER USERS: if you require frequent SSH access, or are daunted by the thought of performing command-line tasks on an iPhone keyboard, we encourage you to check out our TouchTerm Pro app, also available on the App Store. TT Pro takes full advantage of the iPhone's unique capabilities to provide a powerful, easy-to-use remote administration tool over SSH: including support for saved commands/macros, gesture-based commands, auto-completion, and copy-and-paste. Search for "TouchTerm Pro" in the App Store, or see our website for more details and a full video tour!
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TouchTerm SSH Review

SSH terminal client app lets you access servers from your iPhone, iPod touch

SSH is one of the most important tools to a system administrators. The network protocol gives sys admins remote access to their servers. Having that kind of access—to a web server, say—allows them to restart problematic services, make quick changes, of fix a bug.


TouchTerm
That’s the promise behind TouchTerm, an SSH terminal client application available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Jbrink.net’s free application has some great features that provide remote access from your mobile device.

TouchTerm opens with a connections page where you can have pre-configured connections. This makes connecting to a machine much faster, especially if you are always accessing the same machines.

The application works in both portrait and landscape view. You have access to some of the common keyboard buttons (Ctrl, Alt, Tab, Esc, Ctrl-C, and arrow keys, for example) through semitransparent buttons at the top. You can bring up or hide the keyboard by tapping anywhere on the screen.

TouchTerm has a few shortcomings, the most obvious of which is that it takes time to maneuver around. Typing is always a little tricky on an iPhone, so don’t expect to get on a server and do anything quickly.

Jbrink.net also offers a $15 version called TouchTerm Pro aimed at power users who want streamlined command-line processing, but I’ve found the free TouchTerm to be a fine choice if you need something to fix a server. It’s very handy when you are not sitting at a computer and need a quick fix.

TouchTerm is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.

[John Congdon is the CTO of bowlingball.com, co-host of TalkBowling.com, and a part-time blogger.]

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