SSHeven: a modern SSH client for Mac OS 7/8/9

[cy384]

I think the cat is out of the bag on this one, so here's a thread announcing my SSH client (beta release):

SSHeven is a bare-bones open source SSH client with support for the latest protocol version and encryption standards, allowing access to the default configurations of all modern servers, supporting logins with password or key.

Requirements:

• CPU: Any PPC processor, or at least a 68030 (68040 strongly recommended).
• RAM: 2MB available.
• Disk space: fits on a floppy.
• System 7.1 or later. Versions below 7.5 require the Thread Manager extension.
• Open Transport networking required, latest version possible highly recommended.

Right now it's basically usable, with UI cleanup and a few little features coming before the 1.0 release.

You can find the latest information on github, and the latest releases likewise.

Thank you to, in addition to the many open source devs whose work I'm building on, Wolfgang Thaller aka autc04 (Retro68), Eric Helgeson for a BlueSCSI hardware donation, along with helfire, Knezzen, 2Sierra India, and fogWraith (among others) for their support and bug testing!

 

[saybur]

This is great, thanks for doing all the work to put this together!

 

[desertrout]

Very cool!!!

 

[Crutch]

Awesome, and also props for that very slick box art!

 

[krishnadraws]

Very exciting! I look forward to its release.

 

[TimHD]

Nice!

 

[Byte Knight]

Looks great! Will this have any improvements over MacSSH?

 

[Michael_b]

@cy384 - this is amazing! great work!

Looks great! Will this have any improvements over MacSSH?

From what I recall from MacSSH, you need to enable outdated ciphers/key exchange protocols on the modern server to allow MacSSH to connect. The OP says that SSHeven should work with modern servers OOTB.

 

[WombatPredator]

This is wonderful, thank you!

 

[LaPorta]

Humor someone who does not understand such things: what is this, and what exactly does it do?

 

[WombatPredator]

Humor someone who does not understand such things: what is this, and what exactly does it do?

It's an SSH client. It allows you to securely connect your Mac OS 7/8/9 machine to an SSH server somewhere, typically running on a Unix variant like Mac OS (X) or Linux, and control it.
It's like running the Terminal of the remote machine on your Mac OS 7/8/9 machine.

 

[LaPorta]

Got it. So for most "Mac" stuff, you wouldn't use it.

 

[WombatPredator]

Got it. So for most "Mac" stuff, you wouldn't use it.

Correct. But the thrill of working on a modern machine from the comfort of the Classic interface is not to be understated

 

[cheesestraws]

Yeah, this is for those of us who spend time logged into servers and stuff. Very impressive.

And I really like the box art

 

[Byte Knight]

From what I recall from MacSSH, you need to enable outdated ciphers/key exchange protocols on the modern server to allow MacSSH to connect. The OP says that SSHeven should work with modern servers OOTB.

Gotcha. I just tried MacSSH to connect to my Pi and it couldn't do it, but SSHeven can! I use MacSSH mostly for the full ANSI telnet function to connect to BBS's...

 

[Byte Knight]

So my BBS running Mystic software allows for SSH connections via Cryptlib, and I get this error when trying to connect with SSHeven:



Any plans to support Cryptlib?

 

[cy384]

Any plans to support Cryptlib?

Thanks for the report, I'll take a look at what's going on, that's not an error I expected to see.

 

[Byte Knight]

Thanks for the report, I'll take a look at what's going on, that's not an error I expected to see.

SSH to cqbbs.ddns.net:2200 if you want to test it out.

 

[valejacobo]

Wow nice! I'll make sure to download it to my quadra as soon as i manage to get a working floppy drive

 

[MindWalker]

Just tested this on my IIcx (running 7.1 + OpenTransport) and works well! I was able to SSH into my Raspberry Pi (handshake took a moment). Great work!

Also another for the box art!