Secure Shell Clients for Windows

Secure Shell can be considered a secure form of a telnet connection. Like telnet, it allows you to connect directly to another machine to issue commands. Unlike telnet, it encrypts all traffic sent, most importantly your username and password.

There are two different Secure Shell standards, known as Secure Shell (SSH) 1 and 2. SSH2 is newer and considered much more secure, so you should use it if possible.

You can use either SSH1 or SSH2 to connect to bama.ua.edu. Other servers may only support one of the two, so you should check with the system administrators of other machines you will need use.

SSH Secure Shell

The University is licensed to use and distribute a SSH2 client from SSH Communications. This client also supports SFTP.

Download SSH Secure Shell

Secure Shell Plugin for TeraTerm

TeraTerm is a popular telnet program. This plugin extends TeraTerm to also support SSH1.

Download TeraTerm (if you do not already have it)
Download SSH plugin

Once you have installed the plugin, make sure that you use the "ttssh.exe" executable and select SSH as the connection method.