# Pilot SSH  I developed this mobile application to fill the needs of system administrators working on call far from their desk. They wanted a tool that was fast, easy to use on a mobile and powerful enough to manage a full server. I studied the tools used for remote administration, and they were mainly based on two different systems: * administration by shell on SSH or Telnet * deployment of a server component (web service, etc) with a specific client accessing it I chose SSH because it is already widely deployed, well understood by most system administrators, and safer than web services to manage a server. System operators often write their own scripts to automate their tasks, so I searched for a way to use these on a mobile application. A shell is not suited for touch terminals, so the application presents the script results in a friendly way. The result is a flexible remote administration solution, using [open source scripts](https://github.com/Geal/PilotSSH-scripts), available for iPhone and soon for Android, that you can get [here](http://pilotssh.com).