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Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code (msdn.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-break-it-before-somebody-else-does dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has published early source code for its OpenSSH-for-Windows port for developers to pick apart and improve. In a blog post on Monday, Steve Lee – the PowerShell team's principal software engineer manager – said Redmond has finished early work on a Windows port of OpenSSH 7.1, built in a joint-effort with NoMachine. Their rough roadmap from here: 1) Leverage Windows crypto APIs instead of OpenSSL/LibreSSL and run as Windows Service. 2) Address POSIX compatibility concerns. 3) Stabilize the code and address reported issues. 4) Production quality release.

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  1. Leverage? by cyber-vandal · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean use?

  2. Re:Will it tunnel applications? by ewhac · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm sorry; tunneling will only be available in SSH for Windows Server 2012 Enterprise (7 connections max; see your Microsoft rep for additional connection licenses).

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  3. Re:Will it tunnel applications? by Minwee · · Score: 5, Informative

    If I can expect a windows machine to have an ssh daemon capable of tunneling the RDP port to my machine locally, I would be gaining a lot. Such as no longer exposing RDP directly to the client via a VPN.

    ssh -L 3389:127.0.0.1:3389 myusername@somewindowsserver

    Run that, and then try to connect to remote desktop on your local machine. It works with any proper SSH server, including Cygwin. Do you have any other requests?