Telnet Clients for Macintosh

Please remember that telnet connections pass information--including usernames and passwords--across the network in plain text. Use Secure Shell when possible, especially when connecting to sensitive systems. You cannot telnet to bama.ua.edu from off-campus; you must use Secure Shell.

Macintosh OS X

Telnet (and SSH) capability is included within OS X. You can access it via the Terminal application. Look in the Utilities subfolder of your Applications folder. At the prompt, type "telnet server", where server is the name of the computer to which you would like to establish a connection.

There are also a few free terminal replacements for OS X, including iTerm and MacTelnet.

Macintosh OS 9.x and prior

Better Telnet is very popular on campus.

MacTelnet is an open-source telnet client.