hi! i work for an isp and am an intermediate linux user.. in an effort to learn more i have recently switched over to fc4 on my work computer... the reason i switched to fc4 is that most servers in our dc are centos, therefore everything translates easier than say from debian...

anyway on to my question... i am looking for a GUI (currently using gnome but not opposed to switching to KDE) for managing SSH/Telnet sessions.. something with a easy to navigate session management so i can easily find group the systems i connect to, both ssh and telnet.

i have been looking around and i hopefully i will find one on my own, but i am always open to help and appreciate any direction you guys can offer. basically i am looking for secureCRT without having to run wine.

-thanks ...
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There are several available in Linux, but one of the most popular is gFTP, it supports SSH2 and several other transmission modes. You can check it out at http://gftp.seul.org/

i do have gFTP but it does not do what i am looking for... i don't need to transfer files, just looking for a connection manager that will drop me into terminal sessions for cmd line access to linux servers(ssh) and cisco routers/firewalls(telnet)...

i am doing fine just using gnome terminal for now and ssh/telneting to the devices but as naming schemes for routers sometimes gets lengthy and half of our ssh servers are on nonstandard ports (i can never remember which servers listen for ssh on which port ) a connection manager would be a big help...

been scouring sourceforge and found a few that almost worked but nothing that had exactly what i needed


cheers..
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Putty is pretty good (available from Fedora Extras); there's also SecPanel.

gd good old putty .. i had no idea it was in extras, i did a few yum searches but i never saw it in there secpanel i did play with but it didn't support telnet sonnections so it was useless for connecting some of the routers and switches ...


thanks for your help