Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

Lyuben Bahtarliev — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:07:12 GMT

Greets,

As man working with numerous OSes ( including Windows and Linux ), I see other aspects than only ssh to the CLI. Think of tunnels, yes ssh tunnels, one of the big advantages of ssh. So what if I make a successfull ssh to a Windows server and also bind a local port tunneled to this server 3389? Obviously you will get an RDP tunneled through the ssh. And this is only one example. I will leave the others to your creativity and imagination.

Regards,

Lyuben R. Bahtarliev - Team Leader @ eFellows Ltd.

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

stryqx — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:07:17 GMT

SSHWindows hasn't been updated for 4 years now. Why bother writing a guide for setting up abandonware?

If you're going to use SSH to access a Windows system then either use SSH in the Cygwin packages, or use a maintained SSH-only package such as <a href="www.itefix.no/.../index.php

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

deon s. — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:01:30 GMT

Wow look at the mature Linux fanboys go at it. Windows is just another OS that people use get over it. Stop trying to sell Linux its not the right OS for every one.

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

Kit Gerrits — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:45:08 GMT

If you can do next to nothing on the Windows CLI, you should stay away from it.

I've performed server migrations from the CLI (with a tiny bit of 'clicking').

Try looking into 'help' and especially 'net'

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

rj24x7 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:17:53 GMT

Windows is trying to become more UNIX-like and that's scary.

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

Cristi — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:40:04 GMT

Okay, sshd runs on windows, so what? You can do next to nothing with Windows' CLI.

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

Lionel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:30:26 GMT

Actually, there is a catch with sshd on Windows that is not highlighted in this analysis: public key auth bypasses the documented Windows logon (which requires a password or some kind of secret data). This can show up as problems accessing network shares, certificates or EFS-encrypted files.

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

angelos — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:15:52 GMT

Also note that with a little patch SSH can be made to log all traffic to and from the administrator , thus making the remote actions auditable.

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

Pablo — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:55:50 GMT

It would be great, since MS is committed to Security, if they start to ship OpenSSH on Windows Services for Unix.

Instead they still ship Telnet :(

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

jcannon — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:34:11 GMT

Ariel & Pit - the URL was incorrectly set, I've since fixed it. Thank you for calling this to our attention.

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

Ariel — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:32:15 GMT

The download link does not go to a document titled "Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH "

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

Rich — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:44:06 GMT

This paper isn't what's advertised. It's the earlier paper on using AD Kerberos for *nix SSH authentication.

re: Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH

Pit — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:15:54 GMT

SSH shouldn't be used on Windows. Install a Linux system to use SSH and live free.