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Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-will-still-use-putty dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

SSH, or secure shell, is the mainstay of remote access and administration in the Linux world, and the lack of any straightforward equivalent has always been an awkward feature of the Windows world. While there are various third-party options, Windows lacks both a native SSH client, for connecting to Linux machines, and it lacks an SSH server, to support inbound connections from Linux machines.

The PowerShell team announced that this is going to change: Microsoft is going to work with and contribute to OpenSSH, the de facto standard SSH implementation in the Unix world, to bring its SSH client and server to Windows.

Article at Ars Technica

Possible plot twist: Is this newfound support for the SSH protocol and the OpenSSH project actually a new "in" for the NSA to sneak a new backdoor into the protocol?

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  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday June 04 2015, @07:40PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 04 2015, @07:40PM (#192239) Journal

    I thought you could put Cygwin on a Windows box and use it remotely like a real computer? It's been a few years since I had to use Windows for real work, but I put Cygwin on and could do some things with it, like run my bash scripts. Have I misremembered, or can you run the ssh server under Cygwin?

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  • (Score: 2) by jimshatt on Thursday June 04 2015, @08:01PM

    by jimshatt (978) on Thursday June 04 2015, @08:01PM (#192249) Journal
    You haven't misremembered. I don't think IT departments will want to install Cygwin on every machine they want to remotely administrate, but it's possible. Since PowerShell is becoming the standard tool to do scripting and administrative tasks on Windows, this is the better alternative. You can already remotely enter a session or run a block of script on a remote machine, but the communication protocol isn't based on SSH. When SSH is implemented you could probably connect to a remote PowerShell from a Linux machine, and vice versa.