By clicking a couple checkboxes inside System Preferences ⇾ Sharing, my Mac mini’s entire file system was made available to add to Secure ShellFish. While I don’t know the first thing about running a server, I do own a Mac mini, which thanks to macOS can be configured via SSH for access from another device.
This enables access to the entire file structure of your compatible server, and comes with all the perks of integration with Files: drag and drop support, easy document transfers from one file provider to another, a strong set of keyboard shortcuts, tagging options, and availability inside any app powered by the document browser. Secure ShellFish acts as a file provider in the Files app, meaning it can be configured as one of Files’ Location options.
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That is, until you install Secure ShellFish. For all that Files will soon offer, however, it won’t support SSH and SFTP servers.
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Files will soon support external storage devices like USB drives, native zipping and unzipping, offline document storage, and even SMB file server support. And while the first version of Files in iOS 11 had its share of shortcomings, Apple has made significant investments in the app for iOS 13 that guarantee its importance to the platform moving forward. The Files app is at the core of document management on iOS it’s to the iPhone and iPad what Finder is to the Mac. After the initial server setup is complete, you won’t see a server’s documents inside Secure ShellFish, instead they’ll live inside Files. You can optionally select a specific directory if that’s all you need accessible, and also adjust server settings per your preferences.
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The experience of setting up servers is simple: just plug in the appropriate address, port, username, and password as needed, and you’ll be all set up. The core Secure ShellFish app is really just a tool for configuring servers that are then accessed inside of Apple’s Files app. Secure ShellFish, on both iPad and iPhone, aims to be the opposite: it makes configuring servers easy, and accessing them even easier because it’s built around integration with Apple’s Files app. My guess is that many other people feel the same way, not just because of the concept of servers itself, but also because the tools available for configuring and accessing servers can tend to be overly complex. I’ve never had the need for a file server, and have thus considered it one of those technical computing concepts that’s over my head and exists only for a certain type of user.
All my cards on the table: until I tried Anders Borum’s new app, Secure ShellFish, I had no idea what an SSH or SFTP server even was.
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