Openssh for windows is a freely downloadable command line ssh client for windows operating system. This can be downloaded from http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/
A snapshot with the options is given below. (Click on the image to see the options more clearly).
Installation instructions:
- Open the above download link and click on Binary Installer Releases
- Download the zip file
- Unzip the file and run the setupssh.exe file
- Select the options based on your requirement. Unselect server component if you just need the client version.
- After completing installation, open command window and then run ssh
If you want a GUI ssh client you can use Putty.exe. Use Putty connection manager in combination with Putty to have tabbed ssh sessions like the Terminal on Linux.
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Good info, but with Windows (7 at least) OpenSSH for windows client Ignores private keys for authentication becuase the Linux file permissions always read 0644 whatever you do!!
Annoying – if you know a soloution, except using Cygwin please post.
Thanks!
PS. and yes I tried the windows ACL & chmod ports, they don’t affect what the binary sees.
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@ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @
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Permissions 0644 for ‘C:/users/User/desktop/openssh-id_rsa’ are too open.
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
OK I found a soloution to my above problem, to use key auth command line ssh on windows 7:
Just use copssh
In this command prompt, type:
cd “c:\program files\cwrsync\bin”
and hit enter. Then type:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N ”
accept the default location, the pretend root ‘/’ is the Program Files\ICW folder, so then you can use this command perfectly even from a normal Windows CMD prompt and it works!:
C:\Program File\ICW\bin>ssh -i /.ssh/id_rsa user@host uptime
and it works omg sweet. That’s OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
My bad I copied the instructions, there’s one path error, this:
cd “c:\program files\cwrsync\bin”
Should be this:
cd “c:\program files\icw\bin”