What do you use to manage servers you SSH to in OS X?

Question

Coming from Windows, I used Putty a lot since it could store a list of hosts I often connect to, provide me with an easy to use double click and then spawn a terminal. Is there a preferred solution for OSX?

Answer 1

If you have the keys set up already, you can create a config file in the ~/.ssh directory with contents similar to this:

Host myname1
  Hostname host1.example.com
  User host1_user

Host myname2
  Hostname host2.example.com
  User host2_user

Then from the command line you can just use:

ssh myname1

Answer 2

SSH Keys

SSH allows you to use a public / private key pair for a connection, negating the need for a password. Use your hosts file to remember ip addresses and opening a new connection is as easy as ssh user@host.

Answer 3

Use the ssh keys that @Josh K mentions. If you have trouble with the rest, just set-up aliases in your .bashrc file. Eg:

alias prod='ssh user@production.host.com'
alias qa='ssh user@testbox.host.com'

Then from the command line, type qa and you'll be magically logged into the testbox.