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secpanel

SECPANEL(1)						      General Commands Manual						       SECPANEL(1)

NAME

       secpanel - a Tcl/Tk front-end to ssh and scp

SYNOPSIS

       secpanel

DESCRIPTION

       SecPanel serves as a graphical user interface for managing and running SSH (Secure Shell) and SCP (Secure Copy) connections.

       Note: SecPanel is not a new implementation of the SecureShell protocol or the ssh software-suite.

       SecPanel sits on top of SSH software-suites and supports the SSH.com and the OpenSSH-version.  You may get information about these programs
       at http://www.ssh.com respectively at http://www.openssh.com.

       SecPanel is written entirely in pure Tcl/Tk and does not need any extensions but it requires Version 8.x of Tcl and Tk.

       SecPanel is free software and is released under the conditions of the GNU General Public License.  See the file COPYING and  notes  in  the
       source code for details.

   Features
       Saves  and  manages  profiles of different SecureShell connections.  Gives an ftpclient-like graphical interface/file listing for launching
       SCP-transfers.  Editing of profiles mainly by mouse-clicking.  Gives list of profiles to connect to.   One  list  for  default  connections
       using  a default profile and another list for managing special connections e.g. port-forwarding setups for reading mail.  Management of the
       ssh-agent.  Support for generating and distributing keys for public key authentication.

   Planned Features
       Support for the SSH2 protocol related options, configurations and special features of SSH.com's and OpenSSH's suites.

AUTHOR

       Steffen Leich <secpanel@pingx.net>

SEE ALSO

       ssh(1), scp(1), ssh-askpass(1), ssh-agent(1)

Debian Project							    2002-06-30							       SECPANEL(1)