Setting-up Putty Environment at VLSI EXPERT - MAC User

Setting-up Putty Environment at VLSI EXPERT - MAC User

Mac Users

Mac Users already have built-in terminal utility, so putty installation and configuration is not required.

For X-Server, the utility to use is XQuartz (equivalent to XMing utility in windows).

Step 1: Configure XQuartz

Download Xquartz and install through this link https://www.xquartz.org/index.html

and on downloaded page, click highlighted link.



Step 2: Terminal Access

To access any Linux (or Unix) machine / server from your Mac machine, launch terminal application and use following command to login to remote machine

ssh –X username@hostname/IP

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