Server information, change your password, links

Server information

  1. Connect to the host.
  2. Choose Host ▸ Server Info….
  3. You see:
    • Server key: the server’s key type and SHA-256 fingerprint, as your Mac trusts it. Compare it with what your server’s admin gives you.
    • Software, Key exchange and Cipher: what the server runs and how the connection is encrypted. These need Help ▸ Turn On Debug Logging before you connect.
    • Can: what AirSCP found the server can do (run commands, tar, zip, checksums…).
    • Free space in the folder the pane shows.
  4. Click Copy to put it all on the clipboard, for a support request.

Change your password on the server

  1. Connect to the host.
  2. Choose Host ▸ Change Password…. The Terminal tab opens and runs passwd.
  3. Type your current password, then the new one twice, as passwd asks.
  4. If AirSCP saved your old password, it offers to save the new one: type it once more and click Save (or Forget It, and the next connect asks).

AirSCP never reads the password back from your Keychain to do this.

  • Host ▸ Copy Link copies a link like sftp://deploy@web.example.com/var/www: the host and the folder shown. It never holds a password.
  • Opening an sftp:// or ssh:// link (in Safari, Mail or Terminal) opens it in AirSCP: the saved host with that address at that folder, or its Terminal tab for ssh://. For a server you haven’t saved, New Host… opens filled in from the link.