I'm trying to figure out how to get ssh sessions to work how I want using the terminal app on mac os x.

I'm used to using PuTTY on windows, where backspace means backspace.

On mac when I press delete/backspace on mac it deletes the character following the cursor instead of the one before.

I turned on Delete sends Ctrl + H, and that works most of the time, but sometimes it just shows on the screen as ^H this is typically at prompts from some custom python scripts on the box I log into. This doesn't happen with PuTTY on windows.

Btw I'm logging into a Ubuntu Linux server running openssh.

Any idea what I need to do so that backspace is consistently backspace.