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How is this SSH escape sequences when it's actually OpenSSH escape sequences? They look neat though, better than having to restart the session to forward ports

How is this SSH escape sequences when it's actually OpenSSH escape sequences? They look neat though, better than having to restart the session to forward ports. Too bad it doesn't work in PuTTY.

phillipwills 9y ago
Pretty sure you can edit a lot of these session settings in putty while it is running. It's in the menu, I think (been a while since I used putty).
reacweb 9y ago
They work in mobaXterm.
- namibj 9y ago
  Which AFAIK uses a cygwin build of OpenSSH, the only non-cygwin builds are the main GUI, maybe some helper tools, and the X11 Server. The commandline is a cygwin busybox.
cat199 9y ago
because for just about everyone, ssh is openssh for better or worse. true though.
vesinisa 9y ago
I checked, and it is indeed an OpenSSH feature. According to the release notes, it was added in v2.2.0, but you can actually tell just by the perverse choice of ~ as an escape character! In many European keyboard layouts, including the Finnish layout used by original SSH's author, tilde (~) is a compose key and a chore to type. It is usually expressed by typing AltGr+¨ followed by Spacebar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Keyboards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Keyboards English is one of the few keyboard layouts where a person can express ~ with one, rather than two, handstrokes. For others, terminating an SSH session with the escape character usually requires blindly typing this four-part sequence: Enter, AltGr+¨, Spacebar, Dot. I know you can change the escape character with ssh_config(5), but no one who used a non-English layout would have ever chosen ~ as the default to start with. I've always felt like it had to be an OpenSSH-specific feature, because I knew the original author of SSH (before the open-source codebase became OpenSSH) used the same KB layout as myself. ;)

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How is this SSH escape sequences when it's actually OpenSSH escape sequences? They look neat though, better than having to restart the session to forward ports

by gear54rus 9y ago

How is this SSH escape sequences when it's actually OpenSSH escape sequences? They look neat though, better than having to restart the session to forward ports. Too bad it doesn't work in PuTTY.

phillipwills 9y ago
Pretty sure you can edit a lot of these session settings in putty while it is running. It's in the menu, I think (been a while since I used putty).
reacweb 9y ago
They work in mobaXterm.
- namibj 9y ago
  Which AFAIK uses a cygwin build of OpenSSH, the only non-cygwin builds are the main GUI, maybe some helper tools, and the X11 Server. The commandline is a cygwin busybox.
cat199 9y ago
because for just about everyone, ssh is openssh for better or worse. true though.
vesinisa 9y ago
I checked, and it is indeed an OpenSSH feature. According to the release notes, it was added in v2.2.0, but you can actually tell just by the perverse choice of ~ as an escape character! In many European keyboard layouts, including the Finnish layout used by original SSH's author, tilde (~) is a compose key and a chore to type. It is usually expressed by typing AltGr+¨ followed by Spacebar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Keyboards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Keyboards English is one of the few keyboard layouts where a person can express ~ with one, rather than two, handstrokes. For others, terminating an SSH session with the escape character usually requires blindly typing this four-part sequence: Enter, AltGr+¨, Spacebar, Dot. I know you can change the escape character with ssh_config(5), but no one who used a non-English layout would have ever chosen ~ as the default to start with. I've always felt like it had to be an OpenSSH-specific feature, because I knew the original author of SSH (before the open-source codebase became OpenSSH) used the same KB layout as myself. ;)