How to Enable and Use Windows 10’s New Built-in SSH Commands Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman Updated May 16, 2018, 4:17pm EDT Microsoft announced it was bringing an integrated OpenSSH client to Windows in 2015. It is a great alternative for those people, who do not wish to install a separate SSH client on their systems. It has all the features available in other ssh clients for Windows. Bitvise SSH client. A great PuTTY alternative, it is free for personal use and paid for commercial purposes.
An SSH client is a software program which uses the secure shell protocol to connect to a remote computer. This article compares a selection of notable clients.
General[edit]
Name | Developer | Status | First release | Latest release | Current version | Based on | License | Source available |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AbsoluteTelnet | Celestial Software (Brian Pence) | Active | 1996 | 2016-10-12 | 10.16[1] | Proprietary | No | |
ConnectBot | Kenny Root / Jeffrey Sharkey | Active | 2007-11 | 2018-11-09 | 1.9.2 [2] | Trilead SSH-2 for Java | Apache | Yes |
CRAX Commander | Soft4U2 Marcin Słowik | Active | 2013-09 | 2015-12-01 | 1.10.6 | libSSH2 | Proprietary | Yes |
Dropbear | Matt Johnston | Active | 2003-04-06 | 2017-05-18 | 2017.75 | MIT | Yes | |
eSSH Client | Ecode Software | Inactive | 2002-07 | Proprietary | No | |||
lsh | Niels Möller | Active | 1999-05-23 | 2013-06-26 | 2.1 | GPL | Yes | |
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) | The OpenBSD project | Active | 1999-12-01 | 2019-4-17 | 8.0 | ossh | BSD | Yes |
PuTTY | Simon Tatham | Active | 1999-01-22 | 2019-03-16 | 0.73[3] | MIT | Yes | |
SecureCRT | VanDyke Software | Active | 1998-06 | 2018-11-15 | 8.5.2[4] | Proprietary | No | |
SSH Tectia Client/ConnectSecure | SSH Communications Security (former Tectia) | Active | 1995-07 | 2017-06-22 | 6.4.15 | Own implementation in C | Proprietary | No |
SSH Secure Shell Client | SSH Communications Security Corp. | Inactive | 2000 | 2003 | 3.2.9[5] | Proprietary | No | |
Tera Term | TeraTerm Project | Active | 2004 | 2018-08-31 | 4.100[6] | Tera Term Pro 2.3 (1994–1998) | BSD | Yes |
TN3270 Plus | SDI USA, Inc. | Active | 2006 | Proprietary | No | |||
TtyEmulator | FCS Software | Active | 2002-05 | Proprietary | No | |||
ZOC Terminal | EmTec, Innovative Software | Active | 1995-07-01 | 2018-10-17 | 7.21.1[7] | Proprietary | No |
Platform[edit]
The operating systems or virtual machines the SSH clients are designed to run on without emulation; there are several possibilities:
- Partial indicates that while it works, the client lacks important functionality compared to versions for other OSs but may still be under development.
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Name | macOS | Windows | Cygwin | BSD | Linux | Solaris | Java | OpenVMS | z/OS | AIX | HP-UX | iOS | Android | Maemo | Windows Phone |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AbsoluteTelnet | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
ConnectBot | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
CRAX Commander | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Dropbear | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 1] | No | Yes | ? |
eSSH Client | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
lsh | Yes | No | No | Partial[Note 2] | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) | Included | Included[Note 3] | Included | Included | Included[Note 4] | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 1] | Yes | Yes | ? |
PuTTY | Partial | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | Beta |
SecureCRT | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? |
SmartFTP | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
SSH Tectia Client/ConnectSecure | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 5] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
Tera Term | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
TN3270 Plus | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
TtyEmulator | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
WinSCP | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes[Note 1] | No | No | ? |
ZOC | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Name | OS X | Windows | Cygwin | BSD | Linux | Solaris | Java | OpenVMS | z/OS | AIX | HP-UX | iOS | Android | Maemo | Windows Phone |
- ^ abcOnly for jailbroken devices.
- ^lsh supports only one BSD platform officially, FreeBSD.
- ^Included and enabled by default since windows 10 version 1803. Win32-OpenSSH can be installed as an optional component in the Windows versiones before Windows 10 version 1803 to Windows 10 version 1709. Portable version can be download from Win32-OpenSSH for other versions.
- ^The majority of Linux distributions have OpenSSH as an official package, but a few do not.
- ^In the form of a Java Secure File Transfer API.
Technical[edit]
Name | User interface | SSH1 | SSH2 | Additional protocols | Tunneling | Session multiplexing [Note 1] | Kerberos | IPv6 | Terminal | SFTP/SCP | Proxy client[Note 2] | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TELNET | rlogin | Port forwarding | SOCKS [Note 3] | VPN [Note 4] | ||||||||||
AbsoluteTelnet | GUI (multi-session, single-window) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP |
Dropbear | command line | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
lsh | command line | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) | command line | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ProxyCommand |
PuTTY | GUI or command line | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes[Note 5] | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 6] | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet; Local |
SecureCRT | GUI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet; Generic |
SmartFTP | GUI (multi-session, single-window) | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP |
Tera Term | GUI | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | SCP | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet |
TN3270 Plus | GUI | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | SOCKS 4 |
TtyEmulator | GUI or command line | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | SOCKS 4,4a, 5; HTTP Local |
WinSCP[Note 7] | GUI or command line | Yes | Yes | No | No | limited[Note 8] | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | simple | Yes | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet; Local |
ZOC | TDI or command line | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | SCP through terminal[Note 9] | SOCKS 4; 5; HTTP; Jumpserver |
Name | User interface | SSH1 | SSH2 | Additional protocols | Tunneling | Session multiplexing [Note 1] | Kerberos | IPv6 | Terminal | SFTP/SCP | Proxy client[Note 2] | |||
TELNET | rlogin | Port forwarding | SOCKS [Note 3] | VPN [Note 4] |
- ^ abAccelerating OpenSSH connections with ControlMaster.
- ^ abCan the SSH client connect itself through a proxy? This is distinct from offering a SOCKS proxy or port forwarding.
- ^ abThe ability for the SSH client to perform dynamic port forwarding by acting as a local SOCKS proxy.
- ^ abThe ability for the SSH client to establish a VPN, e.g. using TUN/TAP.
- ^The version 0.63 supports GSSAPI. Successfully tested on Win 8 using Active Directory
- ^The PuTTY developers provide SCP and SFTP functionality as binaries for separate download.
- ^ Winscp bundles a number of software components including putty. [1].
- ^WinSCP connection tunneling.
- ^SCP according to ZOC features page.
Features[edit]
Name | Keyboard mapping | Session tabs | ZMODEM transfers | Find text in buffer | Mouse input support[Note 1] | Unicode support | URL hyperlinking | Public key authentication | Smart card support | Hardware encryption | FIPS 140-2 validation | Scripting | Shared Database | Auto-reconnect | CA Certificates |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AbsoluteTelnet | full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) | ? | No | No | ? | Yes[Note 2] | Yes | not native[Note 3] | Yes | Yes[Note 4] | Yes | Partial[Note 5] | No | No | ? | Yes[Note 6] |
PuTTY | No | No[Note 7] | No | No | Yes | Yes | No[Note 8] | Yes | No[Note 9] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No[Note 10] |
SecureCRT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? |
SmartFTP | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | AES-NI | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
Tera Term | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
TN3270 Plus | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
TtyEmulator | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
ZOC | full | Yes | Yes | Alt+F | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | Yes | pkcs#11 | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
- ^The ability to transmit mouse input to text mode applications such as Midnight Commander
- ^Only when the terminal itself supports mouse input. Most graphical ones do, e.g. xterm
- ^No native URL highlighting; however most graphical consoles support URL highlighting
- ^OpenSSH needs to be patched to ask for the pin of the smartcard. If you don't want to patch OpenSSH you can use ssh-agent (the link is in french).
- ^Validated when running OpenSSH 2.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 in FIPS mode or when running OpenSSH 1.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in FIPS mode
- ^OpenSSH supports the minimal certificate format since v5.4. See the release notes for OpenSSH v5.4. [2]
- ^PuTTY does not support tabs directly, but many wrappers are available that do (e.g. PuTTY Connection Manager, SuperPuTTY, MTPuTTY, PuTTYTabManager, mRemoteNG, WinSSHTerm, PuTTY Manager, PuttyTabs and TWSC (Terminal Window ShortCuts)).
- ^PuTTY does not support this, some forks of PuTTY do (e.g. PuTTY Tray and KiTTY).
- ^PuTTY does not support smart cards, but is supported in puttywincrypt, PuTTY-CAC, and in Smartcard Authentication – Secure & Easy putty version.
- ^Putty v71.0 doesn't support Openssh Certificates. See Ben Harris' 2016-04-21 wish. [3] and [4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^https://www.celestialsoftware.net/absolutetelnet-ssh-client/absolutetelnet/ssh-version-history-9.53.html
- ^https://connectbot.org/
- ^'PuTTY Change Log'.
- ^'SecureCRT Release History'.
- ^https://sils.unc.edu/it-services/servers/using-ssh
- ^'Download Files List – Tera Term – OSDN'.
- ^'ZOC version number and version history'.
External links[edit]
- SSH for Java – Comparing Java clients
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Microsoft announced it was bringing an integrated OpenSSH client to Windows in 2015. They’ve finally done it, and an SSH client is hidden in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update. You can now connect to an Secure Shell server from Windows without installing PuTTY or any other third-party software.
Update:The built-in SSH client is now enabled by default in Windows 10’s April 2018 Update. Here’s how to get the update if you don’t already have it on your PC.
PuTTY may still have more features. According to the project’s bug tracker on GitHub, the integrated SSH client only supports ed25519 keys at the moment.
How to Install Windows 10’s SSH Client
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The SSH client is a part of Windows 10, but it’s an “optional feature” that isn’t installed by default.
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To install it, head to Settings > Apps and click “Manage optional features” under Apps & features.
Click “Add a feature” at the top of the list of installed features. If you already have the SSH client installed, it will appear in the list here.
Scroll down, click the “OpenSSH Client (Beta)” option, and click “Install”.
Windows 10 also offers an OpenSSH server, which you can install if you want to run an SSH server on your PC. You should only install this if you actually want to run a server on your PC and not just connect to a server running on another system.
How to Use Windows 10’s SSH Client
You can now use the SSH client by running the
ssh
command. This works in either a PowerShell window or a Command Prompt window, so use whichever you prefer.To quickly open a PowerShell window, right-click the Start button or press Windows+X and choose “Windows PowerShell” from the menu.
To view the syntax of the ssh command, just run it:
If you see an error message saying the command isn’t found, you will need to sign out and sign in again. Rebooting your PC will also work. This shouldn’t be necessary, but this is a beta feature.
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This command works the same as connecting to an SSH server via the
ssh
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For example, to connect to an SSH server at ssh.example.com with the username “bob”, you’d run:
By default, the command attempts to connect to an SSH server running on port 22, which is the default. However, you may need to connect to a server running on a different port. You do this by specifying a port with the
-p
switch. For example, if the server accepts connections on port 7777, you’d run:As with other SSH clients, you’ll be prompted to accept the host’s key the first time you connect. You’ll then get a command-line environment you can use to run commands on the remote system.
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