Both alternatives will also install the command-line of the adaptations of PuTTYkey. There are multiple ways to install PuTTY, which are Homebrew or MacPorts. However, to run PuTTYkey for mac, the first one must have to install PuTTY. The PuTTY for Mac app is the port of the. In the Windows OS, PuTTY Portable is used as SSH Client to connect your Linux server. Moreover, this application supports different types of Network Protocols like SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet and much more. PuTTY is one of the excellent and amazing Terminal Emulators for your Mac PC. By default the system SSH client is installed in /usr/bin/ssh.
Now that we have OpenSSH installed using Homebrew we need to make sure it is the default SSH client. $ brew install openssh $ /usr/local/bin/ssh -V OpenSSH7.1p2, OpenSSL 1.0.2e Making Homebrew OpenSSH Client the default. When utilizing MacPorts, you can find that there are thousands of programs you can run on your Mac that normally wouldn’t be available. PuTTY doesn’t work “naturally” on OS X, so you need to use MacPorts to ‘port’ it to your Mac.