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Windows Server 2019 Officially Supports OpenSSH For the First Time (neowin.net)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the about-time dept.

Microsoft said in 2015 that it would build OpenSSH, a set of utilities that allow clients and servers to connect securely, into Windows, while also making contributions to its development. Neowin: Since then, the company has delivered on that promise in recent releases of Windows 10, being introduced as a feature-on-demand in version 1803. However, Windows Server hadn't received the feature until now, at least not in an officially supported way -- Windows Server version 1709 included it as a pre-release feature. But that's finally changed, as Microsoft this week revealed that Windows Server 2019, which was made available (again) in November, includes OpenSSH as a supported feature.

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  1. Re:Interesting by Desler · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's based on the very latest 7.9 release. If you want to see what they've done then view the git repo:

    https://github.com/PowerShell/...

  2. Least necessary definition ever by damn_registrars · · Score: 2, Informative

    Slashdot users really, really, don't need to be told what OpenSSH does. We've all used it, and most slashdot users are probably using it while they are reading slashdot (even if not to read slashdot). There was no need to tell us what it is in the summary.

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    Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
  3. Re:Interesting by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 3, Informative

    ONE good deed still doesn't excuse their telemetry / spyware shit.

  4. Re:Advantage over RDP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Lol.

    SSH isn't universal. It only runs on some *ix. Many in very limited fashions.
    SSH isn't fast. At all. RDP is *much* faster.
    It can run well over low bandwidth. (So can RDP -- I was using it with 9600 baud modems).
    You can run other protocols through it. So can RDP. You can even run SSH over RDP if you really wanted to.
    You can create a VPN using it. You can forward TCP ports through RDP as well if you really wanted to.
    RDP is native on windows.
    You can present local devices (USB, Graphics Cards, Drives, etc etc ) to programs running remotely.
    You can share your clipboard between local and remote systems effortlessly.