However, if your Mac is behind a router, you’ll see a local IP address like “10.0.2.15” and while you can still SSH into your computer from any other device on the same network, you can’t access it from the internet. Fortunately, you can find it in the “Sharing” settings window.
In order to connect to your Mac from a remote computer, you should first know its IP address. Since we now know that everything is working, type in “logout” and hit Enter. For example, in the screenshot below we’ve run a few commands: You’ll now be logged in to your Mac over SSH. Type in “yes” to verify, and then type in your password. Open a Terminal window and type in: ssh command will show you the server key and ask you to accept it. Now, you might want to verify whether the SSH server working as intended. If you want to restrict SSH logins to certain users or groups of users, select “Only these users” and add some users to the list.
#How to ssh from mac how to
In this article, we’re going to take a look at how to enable Remote Login and use SSH to manage your Mac and transfer files. Therefore, it protects you against man-in-the-middle attacks, unlike traditionally used protocols such as telnet and FTP. SSH is an encrypted and authenticated protocol. Enabling this feature starts up a SSH server, and it allows you to access your Mac through a command line interface and transfer files. Remote Login is a feature in macOS that allows you to connect to your Mac from another computer.
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