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Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has announced plans for native support for SSH in Windows. "A popular request the PowerShell team has received is to use Secure Shell protocol and Shell session (aka SSH) to interoperate between Windows and Linux – both Linux connecting to and managing Windows via SSH and, vice versa, Windows connecting to and managing Linux via SSH. Thus, the combination of PowerShell and SSH will deliver a robust and secure solution to automate and to remotely manage Linux and Windows systems." Based on the work from this new direction, they also plan to contribute back to the OpenSSH project as well.
* I remember joking about connecting to a 'doze server via SSH in 2005. Usually the response was a disgusted shiver.
* I guess Microsoft finally got sick of seeing PuTTY's hegemony in the terminal/SSH client market, and decided that this, *this* was a market they could finally dominate in this day and age?
* I shudder to think of how bastardized the command options are going to be, given the PowerShell's habit of using stuff like '-omgLookAtThisMassiveOptionNamingConvention', to the point where they have to alias a frickin' option...
Ah well, good on 'em. I'll stick with using Linux and OSX clients, thanks much.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Sensible? Dunno... Desperate? Probably.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Kerberos was not either.
Just replace "PuTTY" with "Netscape" and you'll understand, what I'm talking about. Hopefully...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
You know it's going to be just yet another way of hacking into a Windows box.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
As long as by "complex abomination" you mean completely standardarized switch syntax with tab completion and integrated help.
Jeremy
Losing nearly a billion dollars over an 8 year period, firing four-thousand permanent staff, and being dead last in search and browser rankings will do strange things to you. Steve Ballmer shoulders some of the blame for the nosedive with his nearly cult-like adherence to the redmond ethos of embrace-extend-extinguish in the face of a brand like linux that just can't be killed with it. But to think after 15 years as other slash dotters have commented that this will make any significant dent in the status quo is self-defeating at best.
SSH gives windows users the ability to do real work, and thats a controversial sentiment but in most large corporations admins that handle LAMP, percona, or hadoop do it from a windows machine by company policy. Microsoft doesn't understand that outside of email and office, the real juggernauts of industry are so far removed from redmonds product line it may as well be a different language entirely. conceding a pittance, this ssh, and promising to commit code to openssh do two things. One, they add continued relevance to windows in an office environment that otherwise is the next prime target to be extinguished as quickly as the home market for windows. Two, they provide code to openssh not because they have any particular valuable insight to add to the project which has handled itself just fine for 15 years, but because they need to ensure their openssh implementation actually works with other well-established and quite serviceable implementations. So don't expect any real innovation.
Good people go to bed earlier.
That, for example, in order to ssh into a remote Windows system you'll have to use Microsoft's ssh-client — because they'll use some funky cipher/digest combination or some other "extension". They did it to Kerberos before...
Or that interactive logins will only work on certain terminal emulators — because nothing else will be able to properly emulate powershell's window — just imagine the termcaps entry...
In the link I gave there is a large list of Microsoft's earlier attempts to kill a standard by first adopting it — read it up...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.