The Mac must enable ‘Remote Login’ to allow users to SSH into MacOS, assuming they have a proper login and password anyway. Pay attention to the text under the Remote Login status ‘To log in to this computer remotely, type “ssh That IP address is what you’ll be using to connect to the Mac from the iPad. The Mac is now an SSH server, offering you a shell to connect to from the iPad. Go to  Apple menu > System Preferences > Sharing > enable “Remote Login”, and also check the box for “Allow full disk access for remote users” You can enable the SSH server on a Mac by turning on a feature called Remote Login. First, you’ll enable the SSH server on the Mac, and then you’ll connect to it from the iPad using an ssh client app. That may all sound complicated, but it’s really not, as you’ll soon see.

Well I hope this helped, or at least it could be a referance for someone else to stumble upon.You’ll need to make sure the Mac and iPad are on the same network, you’ll have to change a system setting that enables the SSH server on the Mac, then, you’ll need to download a third party app called Termius which functions as a terminal application for iPad, so that you can connect to the Mac. But then again as I am assuming you are a college student ,for you have the time to play World of Warcraft, post on this message board and research SSH servers, I am guessing this is out of the question I know GlobalScape has a good FTP client, I havent tried this product in particular but I am sure you could deploy it on your windows box and test out your app.Īnd if you have the finichal means you may want to pick up MacOS X Server, I am 75% sure it has an SSH Server built in. This is the pretty tried and true system, I have used it on my Linux firewalls with putty on my windows box, I am 95% sure you can run it on your windows box successfully. Someone should really start and SSH server project on So I would avoid it, infact the only reason this is in here is because I didnt want to delete it because I thought it was kinda cool. I am not sure if this will help, infact I think it will send you in the completely wrong direction. From what I can tell you are looking for a free SSH server, I did a quick search of, here are a few things that I found you might want to look at.

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