Like all Linux users, you probably have certain tools you rely on to get your job done. For example, if you’re a system administrator, a web developer, or a hacker, a good SSH client is a must. Add to that a nice, graphical SFTP client and a VNC client and you can do almost anything. What about a secure VNC client — VNC tunneled through SSH? The latter would be great, but it’s a pain to set up, right?
Meet UniTTY (http://www.3sp.com/products/applications/unitty/unitty.jsp), an integrated SSH, SFTP, VNC, secure VNC, rlogin, and telnet client. UniTTY is free (albeit not open source), and is written in Java, so it runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Head to the Web site and download the 4 MB UniTTY_linux.sh, which is obviously a shell script. This script should work on nearly every Linux distribution, as long as you have a working, up-to-date installation of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in place. After you download the file, make it executable with chmod 744 UniTTY_linux.sh, and run the script as root via sudo./UniTTY_linux.sh. Follow the directions of the wizard-style installer (how weird to see those in Linux!) to place UniTTY on your machine.
Unfortunately, UniTTY doesn’t automatically add itself to the Application menu, at least in Ubuntu. For convenience, add a link yourself or start the program from…
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