Gnome SSH / telnet client manager

[ChrisC]

I know I can telnet / ssh from the command line. I would like to have a graphical manager of my usual ssh / telnet destinations, like gFTP does for ftp. I didn't find anything in Synaptic that was in the ubuntu repository. Suggestions?

[sapo]

gftp works for ssh too, i dont know about telnet.. but i always used gftp with ssh and it works fine.

[nanotube]

gftp does give you a gui frontend to sftp (just choose port 22, and protocol ssh), but it does not give you a remote shell, just file transfer. if that's what you were looking for, then have fun. :) if you were looking for an actual shell, then i do not understand why you would want a gui for it...

[ChrisC]

if you were looking for an actual shell, then i do not understand why you would want a gui for it...

I connect to a half dozen machines routinely, and I don't want to have to drop to a shell prompt, remember the exact ssh command syntax, hostname and username. In other words, I want a front end to remember all that for me, so I can just say "connect to WorkMachine" and a shell screen pops up asking for the password.

It's a pretty basic tool ... think "Zap-O-Comm for OS/2" or "PuTTY for Windows". In fact, I'd think this would be one of the first Gnome apps developed :)

[majikstreet]

hm.. Well I know you can make a bash alias for say:
ssh majikstr@majikstreet.org

then make that say majikorgssh
then all you'd have to do is enter a password.

here's the thread (there may be more though) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89732&highlight=bash

majikstreet

EDIT: I know that comes out as an email address, but let me underscore that that is _not_ an email address :D


EDIT2: Another _wonderful_ thread is this one: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=73885
That thread has multiple parts, and here's the one that has bash aliasing: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=73885 hmm now that I look at it I don't see much about it, but anyway...

[kaamos]

Putty is one choice also in linux.
sudo apt-get install putty

[ChrisC]

sudo apt-get install putty

Holy crap, I didn't even consider that. Outstanding! It's not gnomified, but I'll take it. Thanks!

[majikstreet]

sudo apt-get install pterm

I haven't tried it yet but I'm installing those two as we speak.

eek.. looks as if I was fooled by apt-cache..

forget about pterm..

[racefan88]

Holy crap, I didn't even consider that. Outstanding! It's not gnomified, but I'll take it. Thanks!
I'm new to ubuntu, and have been trying to get some packages loaded, and with putty I get the following:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
putty: Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages