Now you must use an SSH client on the iPad to connect to the SSH server on the Mac. On the iPad, Connect to the Mac SSH Server You can either login to your primary user account on the Mac, or a separate newly created user account, if preferred. The Mac must enable ‘Remote Login’ to allow users to SSH into MacOS, assuming they have a proper login and password anyway.

Pay attention to the text under the Remote Login status ‘To log in to this computer remotely, type “ssh That IP address is what you’ll be using to connect to the Mac from the iPad. The Mac is now an SSH server, offering you a shell to connect to from the iPad. Go to  Apple menu > System Preferences > Sharing > enable “Remote Login”, and also check the box for “Allow full disk access for remote users” You can enable the SSH server on a Mac by turning on a feature called Remote Login. First, you’ll enable the SSH server on the Mac, and then you’ll connect to it from the iPad using an ssh client app. That may all sound complicated, but it’s really not, as you’ll soon see.

You’ll need to make sure the Mac and iPad are on the same network, you’ll have to change a system setting that enables the SSH server on the Mac, then, you’ll need to download a third party app called Termius which functions as a terminal application for iPad, so that you can connect to the Mac.

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