Good Windows SSH Client
I like my SSH clients to be console applications, not GUI programs, so that I can script them easily. I’ve been using OpenSSH for Windows for a while now, and while it works, it has one major problem: its support for public key authentication is broken on Vista+. (Don’t ask.)
I recently found CopSSH. It’s basically a continuation of OpenSSH for Windows which hasn’t seen new builds since 2004. And while CopSSH is a server-oriented release (cannot install just the client), if you install it and then delete the service and the user account it creates, what you are left with is a perfectly good SSH client.
The only major drawback I found is that it looks for your settings directory (.ssh) in it’s install location instead of your user profile folder, but since I’m the only user of my computer that’s easily fixed with a single symbolic link.
3. February 2010 at 07:07
Someone has brought PuTTY to you attention, long ago..?
7. February 2010 at 21:16
Jesse, I dislike PuTTY. Its terminal emulation doesn’t always work for me, and I don’t like bringing up another console when I usually have one open.
25. March 2010 at 20:16
Just use something like wintabber to put all your consoles in one, with tabs. Very handy.
25. March 2010 at 20:19
By the way, I haven’t been able to get CopSSH to work. In fact, everything I tried did not work. I tried WinSSHD, and it worked immediately.