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

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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Interesting

[guruevi]

The question is: what version, does it have Microsoft-specific extension and what shell do you end up getting (Bash would be nice).

The problem will be when (not if) Microsoft refuses to patch just to point out how 'insecure' Open is.

Re:Interesting

[Desler]

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/...

Re:Interesting

[currently_awake]

The next step is removing the underlying OS from windows and loading in linux underneath a Windows command shell (kindof like what Apple did with MacOS and freebsd). That would give them a dominant share in the growing linux market at little cost, and offload most of the maintenance costs onto the open source groups.

Re:Interesting

[Gabest]

I have it on a 2012 R2 to create reverse tunnels, the shell you get is the normal cmd.exe.

Re:Interesting

[mejustme]

I have it on a 2012 R2 to create reverse tunnels, the shell you get is the normal cmd.exe.

What happens when you attempt to run a GUI application? E.g., notepad.exe?

Re: Interesting

[slazzy]

Says the anonymous coward...

Re:Interesting

[ourlovecanlastforeve]

You joke but this is actually where Microsoft is going.

I remember back in 2005-ish there was an ashcan mag published by former Microsoft employees you could subscribe to for ~$50/year that contained internal memos, emails, etc. and one of the big email threads that was kicked around back then is that Microsoft's future game was to get out of selling Windows as a software product and turn their OS platform into a software-as-a-service model where your hardware would only have a RTOS-based microkernel and the OS would be streamed to you on demand much like the Terminal Services model.

The backend services for that model were meant to run on Linux servers. The end game objective of moving into supporting Linux and contributing code to open source projects is for Microsoft to take over the open source community as a whole by first contributing code, then becoming an asset to the community, then financing development of open source projects. Then when the open source projects can no longer function without Microsoft's funding they would enact a hostile takeover of the open source community by withholding financing unless the community bends to Microsoft's whims.

It's very much a "if you can't beat them with a better product, infiltrate and wreck their shit" scenario.

Re:Interesting

[UnknownSoldier]

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

Re:Interesting

[guruevi]

Microsoft's Linux will only run on Windows/Azure and can only be changed with Visual Studio. You can fork it but you're still locked into the Microsoft platform.

They've already together with VMWare effectively taken over the Linux Foundation; they became members at a few million dollars and suddenly the free seats for key community developers got rescinded. They've already purchased the keynotes at various conferences. Together with IBM (RedHat) pretty much all these conferences now cost $2k+ to attend so the industry is trending towards a closed, commercial interest-only Linux and they couldn't care less what a few neckbeards have to say about it.

Up-and-coming server OS gets basic server feature

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice. Good going, Microsoft.

Who knows... at this rate, in a few years, Windows Server might even be ready for the enterprise.

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Least necessary definition ever

[damn_registrars]

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.

Re: Least necessary definition ever

[Zero__Kelvin]

That was true at one time but you haven't been paying attention if you haven't noticed how many clueless dolts have flocked to this sight in the last several years.

Re:I'm sure it won't collect any information...

[Gabest]

Yea, never trust US companies!

Re: Someday they'll manage to turn it into Unix

[Seven Spirals]

I'm an expert with systemd. I literally work with it daily. I fix it for other people like you. Sorry, Lennart, but I'm extremely well informed and I still think it's terrible.

Advantage over RDP?

[nuckfuts]

As a Unix / OpenBSD fan, I think this is kinda cool, but unless one needs to login to Windows from a Unix box, what would be the advantage of this over RDP? With RDP I can access graphical features, easily map local resources such as drives and printers, connect through a TS gateway, etc.

Re:Advantage over RDP?

[MobyDisk]

1) Speed & latency, especially over broadband. Even the connection time for RDP is often slow.
2) Security maybe? Everybody knows the security capabilities of OpenSSH. RDP is closed source so who knows?

Re:Advantage over RDP?

[Antique Geekmeister]

It's easily tuned to allow authorized_keys to limit access on a key by key basis to specific hostnames, IP addresses, and forced commands by allowing users to manipulate authorized_keys files.

Netcraft confirms ...

[epine]

Netcraft has Slashdot ranked around 50,500th, a bit ahead of jp.match.com and a bit behind linkedin.fr.

My overactive imagination presumes that linkedin.jp and fr.match.com would both have enormously larger traffic shares (but what do I know about the relative power dynamics of wives and mistresses, here and abroad?)

Even so, given that there are now on the order of 100 million registered web sites, the Slashdot effect remains as potent as ever.

The mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across — which happened to be the Earth — where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

        — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

As intergalactic dog's breakfasts go, though, 50000th is not exactly chump change.

Even in our heyday, we always had an implicit alignment with The Mouse That Roared (and a blood feud with the Mickey Mouse Copyright Term Extension Act, which goes to show, boys and girls, that while can beat juggernaut America from the 1950s, but you can't beat multinational Disney, nighty-night sweet dreams).