SSH Tunnel Manager for Mac

User Reviews

• Doesn't Work For Me...Went Back to V1.0.3

  Uisge4/19/2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've always liked this app. Thanks to Yann for developing it. I've used v1.0.3 for a few years, and it's been very helpful, in spite of a few quirks. I access a number of machines with up to 18 tunnels per connection. I recently upgraded to 2b3, and have not been able to use it at all. It does not save any tunnels in the preference file when I quit. Also, with V1.0.3, I could use BBEdit to manage the .plist using XML, since entering the tunnels wouldn't always work well. The v2b3 .plist cannot be read by BBEdit. I reinstalled v1.0.3, and hope that a new version will address the problems.

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• Not so good

  itorres11/12/2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />As stated in a previous review, it could use an SSH Agent to autenticate, but haves an option to handle the authentication externally, so that's no problem. My problem has been with System hogs in Tiger. Since three days ago my computer freezed the momment I started a tunneled MySQL connection. I tried changing the MySQL client to no avail, so I am now tunneling with SSH Agent. It's less user friendly, but I have no problemas at all with it.

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• Works well, easy to use

  hammer324/26/2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I picked this up to make my Timbuktu sessions more secure while I'm on the road. It was easy to set up and easy to use.

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• Looks good but no low ports=bad.

  JTodd311/26/2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The inability to tunnel ports numbered &lt;1024 makes this utility marginally useful, at best. Stupid applications that have "fixed" ports but variable hosts can be tricked into talking to local ssh tunnels, but not via your program! I still need to manually allocate ports for low-numbered apps, which is almost all of them (110, 25, 20, 21, etc.) Please put a "bless as root" button in this app somewhere.

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• very cool

  SteveDave27/24/2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Very cool piece of software. Makes tunneling pretty painless. It did crash once on me after "stop"-ping a tunnel, but other than that, works great. -p

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• Excellent!

  Joe_User5/16/2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Great piece of software you have here... Can't wait till you implement the root authentication though, then I can use all of the server administrative features with OSX server.

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• VersionTrackerUserOpinion12/12/2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Works great! Only comments - the initial SSH queries about host keys for an unknown host are impossible to read, as only a tiny portion

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• Another Marc12/8/2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Nice one. Only problem: the application crashes on startup. To fix this I had to remove my preference file (~/Library/Preferences/com.tynsoe.sshtunnelmanager.plist). Submitted bug report at SourceForge.

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• pcptn12/3/2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This thing saved my day! My boss wanted to reach our AppleShare server from outside and he won't cope with Unix commands. It gives you

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• Another Marc12/2/2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Nice one. The only things missing for me is the possibility to choose blowfish encryption and a "Notes" field that goes with a tunnel.

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