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Win32 port of OpenSSH

52 mentions on Hacker News by 33 people: 5 stories, 47 comments · first 2015-10-19 · latest 2025-03-09

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  1. …probably prompts the user that access is denied, and would you like to update the permissions. https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/2282
    comment by Hilift · 2025-03-09 · in Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
  2. …about current status. And you can’t call Windows executables from WSL when you SSH into it. [1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/139
    comment by oefrha · 2024-10-05 · in Show HN: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers
  3. A request for an official answer on CALs for Microsofts' SSH port is about to turn 6 years old: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/926
    comment by password4321 · 2023-10-03 · in Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP
  4. …instead of FIDO/U2F security keys)." 1: https://github.com/tavrez/openssh-sk-winhello/issues 2: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/1804#issu...
    comment by judge2020 · 2022-08-26 · in Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
  5. Another solution for windows: The support is already there within 8.9.1.0 beta release: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases You must then use the SSH installed within 'C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\ssh.exe' and not the builtin…
    comment by jve · 2022-05-30 · in How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey
  6. …how licensing works out for 3rd party servers like Caddy-SSH. Licensing / Multi-user access / CAL | https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/926 (Oct 2017)
    comment by password4321 · 2022-03-28 · in Show HN: Caddy-SSH
  7. …where the keys never leave the device and are protected by the secure processor in the device. 0: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/1804#issu...
    comment by judge2020 · 2022-02-16 · in 1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)
  8. …Assuming you're using an updated beyond Microsoft's default version, which you'll need to get from https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases to have support for USB keys, of course. Hopefully MS will update their included…
    comment by Firehawke · 2022-01-11 · in Tell HN: GitHub no longer supporting unauthenticated `git://`
  9. https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases
    comment by voltagex_ · 2020-12-31 · in Linux Hardening Guide
  10. …shell. Launching a VM via shell script is trivial. And you can install OpenSSH on Windows 10: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
    comment by mr_mitm · 2019-10-14 · in How to fuck up software releases
  11. If you can figure out how to reproduce the issue, I'm sure the team would accept a bug report at https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
    comment by voltagex_ · 2019-05-19 · in “Python's batteries are leaking”
  12. you might want to create an issue for their devs to look into. https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues
    comment by mams · 2018-12-14 · in Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH
  13. …if openssh integrated into Windows properly. I can't ssh in as a user with any real permissions. https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/139
    comment by tylerapplebaum · 2018-12-13 · in Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH
  14. …you can install sshd and/or use the client by adding them as a feature, or by installing manually. https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH and https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable
    comment by adzm · 2018-12-12 · in Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH
  15. …OpenSSH, at least on Windows 10 you can install it as a Windows feature, or pull it from GitHub https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases
    comment by detaro · 2018-11-15 · in Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha
  16. …now, but we're tracking it here and I'll be responding back here with some info when I have it: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/926
    comment by joeyaiello · 2017-12-13 · in Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
  17. …in the label), but we hope to be soon. * All of this is being done in open-source out of a fork at https://github.com/powershell/Win32-OpenSSH (code work is technically checked into https://github.com/powershell/openssh-portable/ first,…
    comment by joeyaiello · 2017-12-12 · in Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
  18. …a Windows device" and the current "Web Workload" exception... maybe a new exception is on the way. https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/926#issue...
    comment by j_s · 2017-12-12 · in Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
  19. …this is because key auth requires domain\username@host (doesn't resolve the domain automagically)? https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/420#issue...
    comment by j_s · 2017-12-12 · in Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
  20. I'm confused. I've been using https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH for this for a long time now. Everything works well. Is this new thing somehow different? Better?
    comment by neilsimp1 · 2017-12-12 · in Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
  21. I'm using this in production on a Windows Server 2016 https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Install-Win... It works but I never managed to connect to it using public/private keys, only username and password. Luckily I don't have…
    comment by pmontra · 2017-12-12 · in Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
  22. …project. What are the pro's and con's of using it instead of the win32 version of OpenSSH? [0] [0] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
    comment by novium · 2017-10-25 · in Show HN: Secure Windows Shell
  23. …shells and has decent pty support (it fires up a separate shellhost.exe process per client) 0 - https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/909#issue...
    comment by kodablah · 2017-10-23 · in Show HN: Pyrexecd – Standalone SSH Server for Windows
  24. I wonder how this compares with https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH feature and stability-wise.
    comment by neilsimp1 · 2017-10-23 · in Show HN: Pyrexecd – Standalone SSH Server for Windows
  25. …hard drive when sshd is running. Sometimes. [4] * Git compatibility isn't quite there. [5] --- [0] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/874 [1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/879 [2]…
    comment by shakna · 2017-09-15 · in MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY
  26. Has anybody else tried using native Win32 OpenSSH like myself instead of PuTTy? https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH Edit: Also, the linked site for MTPuTTy doesn't seem to want to load for me.
    comment by neilsimp1 · 2017-09-15 · in MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY
  27. …OpenSSH to Win32 right now that includes the SFTP server and client that ships as part of OpenSSH: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases Key configuration is a little tricky right now, but we've got some helper scripts…
    comment by joeyaiello · 2017-08-08 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server
  28. That would be: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH ?
    comment by e12e · 2017-04-14 · in What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
  29. …SSHd into a Unix box work again so this is way more usable as a daily driver than the last release. https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/TTY-PTY-sup... makes interesting reading.
    comment by nailer · 2017-03-17 · in Win32 OpenSSH version v0.0.10.0 released
  30. For SSH: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Install-Win... For "unix", you can actually run linux on windows now: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui... If you want to use windows store, it acts like…
    comment by tyfon · 2017-01-21 · in Ask HN: Must do's and must know's when switching to Windows?
  31. I'd wait til ssh.exe is a little more stable: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues I'm just about sick of PuTTY, though, ready to just drop a copy of MSYS2's ssh.exe in my DropBox\bin folder and leave it at that.
    comment by voltagex_ · 2016-11-14 · in KiTTY – A fork of PuTTY 0.67 with many additional features
  32. https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases Microsoft has an SSH server for Windows right now. [Edit] Here is a guide from the WinSCP peeps on how to get it running. https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_windows_openssh_server The…
    comment by timgws · 2016-08-19 · in PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
  33. see: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH . ssh is coming, likely in an official capacity in the future (this is an official MS group on github)
    comment by jaykru · 2016-08-18 · in PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
  34. …as a transport. Is possibly an even bigger announcement (this means there's actual momentum behind https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH )
    comment by voltagex_ · 2016-08-18 · in PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
  35. It's getting there: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
    comment by voltagex_ · 2016-07-03 · in Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
  36. And there's openssh as a Windows binary that will eventually ship with Windows in the future. https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases
    comment by shanselman · 2016-03-31 · in Ubuntu on Windows
  37. …We're definitely not cancelling our plans[1] to deliver native Win32 OpenSSH any time soon. [1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Win32-OpenS...
    comment by joeyaiello · 2016-03-31 · in Ubuntu on Windows
  38. …reason for not running Windows at this point if other considerations didn't outweigh it for me. 1: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
    comment by kbenson · 2016-03-30 · in Ubuntu on Windows
  39. …No, it's not perfect, and PuTTY isn't always the answer, but who'd have thought https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH would ever be a thing.
    comment by voltagex_ · 2016-02-24 · in Cash: a cross-platform implementation of Unix shell commands in JavaScript
  40. See https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/57 . For some reason putty works but iTerm has the backspace issue. Putty user: what's your $TERM? Ctrl H works as a workaround BTW.
    comment by mikemaccana · 2016-01-01 · in Install Win32 OpenSSH test release
  41. See also https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/ssh.exe-exa... once you've got it running. To work around a bug, you'll currently need to run `powershell -File -` It's still way too early to us as a daily driver - lots of small…
    comment by mikemaccana · 2016-01-01 · in Install Win32 OpenSSH test release
  42. Regarding System User: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/2 , it needs that right to generate user tokens
    comment by Asmod4n · 2015-10-20 · in OpenSSH for Windows update
  43. The more things change..., from: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Deploy-Win3... "If you need key-based authentication: Install key-auth package run setup-ssh-lsa.cmd reboot " Reboot? And this gem: "SSH daemon needs to run…
    comment by e12e · 2015-10-20 · in OpenSSH for Windows update
  44. There are these two interesting commits, "Add pty mode support code": https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/commit/55f2ec682... and "Add ANSI parsing engine and console draw support to SSH client":…
    comment by geofft · 2015-10-20 · in OpenSSH for Windows update
  45. …Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. user@DEV-10566-829 C:\Users\user>powershell -File - - https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/ssh.exe-exa... That gives me some hope that it's being done right.
    comment by asveikau · 2015-10-20 · in OpenSSH for Windows update
  46. …exciting to hear. I might be overly nitpicky, but holy inconsistent coding styles Batman: compare https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/blob/bafc1df7c5c... to the other source files.
    comment by int_handler · 2015-10-19 · in OpenSSH for Windows update
  47. For those interested the source code is here: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/
    comment by alpb · 2015-10-19 · in OpenSSH for Windows update