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.
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?
(Score: 2) by tempest on Thursday June 04 2015, @07:42PM
Yes, I'm just saying this in context of "I'll keep using putty". For me SSH support will be mostly a wait and see thing on the server side depending on how well the shell integration works. I've only had mediocre experiences with Powershell, but I think a big part of that has been the lack of something like ssh. No-GUI isn't an option on the windows servers I admin.