16.2. Basic Client Use

Client behavior is set in the Properties window: visit the Edit menu and select Properties (Figure 16-1). Select Connection, and enter the information as shown in the figure. Click OK to close the window, and then in the File menu choose Connect. Since no public keys are known to the program yet, password authentication is used. If all goes well, you are prompted for your login password by the remote server, and then you're logged in via SSH.

Figure 16-1. F-Secure SSH Client Connection properties window

Once logged in, the program operates just like a normal terminal program. SSH's end-to-end encryption is transparent to the user, as it should be.

When your settings are as you like them, create a session file to store them. Session files are named with .ssh extensions and may be saved and opened with (surprise, surprise) the Save and Open commands in the File menu.

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