nextssh
Your terminal, file browser, and SSH keys — reachable from any browser, on any device.
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Sign in
Someone administering this install either created an account for you, or you registered yourself at
/register. Self-registered accounts wait for an admin to approve them — if the login page tells you your account is pending approval, that’s expected, not an error. Come back once you’ve been approved.Before you go furtherThere’s no “forgot password” link, on purpose — see Accounts & access before you pick a password you might not remember.
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Add your first connection
Open the + icon in the sidebar (desktop) or the equivalent action (mobile) to start a new session. Give it a name, the host/port/username, and choose how to authenticate: a password, or your personal SSH key (nextssh generates and holds that key for you — see Your SSH key).
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Open a terminal — and approve the host key once
Hit Connect. The very first time you reach a given server, nextssh shows you its host key fingerprint and waits for you to approve it before the shell opens. Approve it once; nextssh remembers it and will refuse to connect — loudly — if that fingerprint ever changes later.
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Get oriented
On a desktop-sized window, terminals open as free-floating panes you can drag, resize, and snap to a grid; the sidebar rail on the left holds every other action — new session, current sessions, cascade/tile layout, settings, sign out. On a phone or narrow tablet, you get one full-screen terminal at a time with a tab strip and an on-screen keyboard for keys your touch keyboard doesn’t have.
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Try the file browser
Open a file browser on the same connection to move around the filesystem, edit text files in place, preview images, and drag files straight out to your desktop. It’s a separate window from your terminal, so you can browse and type commands side by side.
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Install it as an appoptional
Most browsers offer Install app or Add to Home Screen. Installed, nextssh opens without any browser chrome around it, and shows a plain offline page instead of a broken tab if your network drops while it’s closed.
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Where to go from here
Everything above just scratches the surface — macros for repetitive keystrokes, a clipboard scrapbook that survives across connections, archive browsing, file history, a Database Explorer for MySQL/Postgres/SQLite, public tunnel links for sharing a running app, and more all live in the Full Manual.