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Do newer versions of Windows include an ssh client yet? If they do, that will remove my major irritation with Windows on the rare occasions I have to use it.
by Joeboy 14y ago
Do newer versions of Windows include an ssh client yet? If they do, that will remove my major irritation with Windows on the rare occasions I have to use it.
- dschep 14y agoNot AFAIK (win7).
- jaredmcateer 14y agoNo I don't believe they do. I just keep a copy of PuTTY on a USB stick for the situations I need to use a Windows PC
- cleverjake 14y agoThe closest thing you get is subsystem for unix based applications (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771672.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771672.aspx) which is built into windows. There isn't an ssh client built in, but there are community compiled ones you can download http://www.suacommunity.com/tool_warehouse.aspx http://www.suacommunity.com/tool_warehouse.aspx
- meaty 14y agohttp://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.h... And you don't have to install anything. I chuck it all in c:\windows and it's available in PATH then.
- lmm 14y ago>And you don't have to install anything. I chuck it all in c:\windows and it's available in PATH then. You think copying random files from the internet into system directories with no tracking, no upgrade management, no uninstall capability is a good thing?
- meaty 14y agoIt's not a particularly great thing, but it's "good enough" for your average single shot laptop. If it was a corporate machine, we'd package it and deploy it via GPO.
- marshray 14y agoNo, it's secure. All you have do is first download a random GPG exe from the internet and check the .sig using the PGP key supplied with PuTTY :-)
- pmarsh 14y agoSure you know but you could just edit the PATH variable as well so you don't have to muddy up c:\windows.
- Joeboy 14y agoI know about putty of course, the problem is that I feel I have to ask people if it's ok if I install mysterious hacker software on their computer. Maybe I just need to get over that.
- recursive 14y agoNope. I recently had to use ssh, and needed to download a client on Win 7.
- madsushi 14y agoMicrosoft is actually moving in the opposite direction; they removed the telnet client from the default install.
- commandar 14y agoPedantry: it's still included in the install, it's just disabled by default.