PAC Manager: Easily Manage SSH/Telnet Connections

PAC Manager is an application (GUI) for easy configuring and managing SSH/Telnet connections. It supports macros, cluster connections, RDP and VNC, pre/post connections local executsions and much more.

PAC Manager can display the connections either in tabs or separate windows and it provides a notification area icon for quick access to your configured connections. Its developer describes it as:

Unique Linux application to impletement almost every SecureCRT's functionality.

Note that I didn't test it because I have no server to connect to right now.


Download PAC Manager (source, .rpm and .deb available) - please note that you have to install both libgnome2-vte-perl (also available on PAC Manager's Sourceforge page) and pac.

Thanks to WebUpd8 reader Bruce Ingalls for the tip; Screenshot via PAC Manager page.

SSH tutorial for Linux

SSH stands for Secure SHell. This is similar to telnet but with the difference that while telnet sends all your data including your password as plain text across the network, SSH sends everything in encrypted format. This means that it is well impossible to snoop at your data or passwords while it is in transit across the Internet or network.

Over a period of time, I have written a couple of articles on this blog related to SSH. Today I came across a very well written tutorial on using SSH by Mark Krenz. He explains the concept of SSH, generating public private encryption keys, forwarding an X11 session on top of SSH, TCP forwarding, SOCKS5 proxying and so on. A very good article worth spending ones time to read.

Related articles:

• How to setup SSH keys and why ?
• SSH - Secure SHell explained
• Integrating SSH in GNU/Linux