The PowerShell team at Microsoft has announced that the company is going to support and contribute to OpenSSH community in an effort to deliver better SSH support in the PowerShell and Windows SSH software solutions.
Until now Unix and Linux system administrators have to download a third-party SSH client software like Putty on their Windows machines to securely manage their machines and servers remotely through Secure Shell protocol or Shell Session (better known as SSH).
For those who are unaware, SSH is basically designed to offer the best security when accessing another computer remotely. It not only encrypts the remote session, but also provides better authentication facilities, with features like secure file transferring and network port forwarding.
You don't need to deal with any third-party SSH client now, as Microsoft is working on supporting OpenSSH.
This is not first time Microsoft has planned to adopt SSH for its Windows platform, the company had tried to allow the secure shell protocol to be used within Windows twice but was unable to implement it. Because this is the 3rd time the PowerShell team has attempted to support SSH. The first attempts were during PowerShell V1 and V2 and were rejected.
However, developers who are eager to use this new functionality in PowerShell still have to wait for some time, as the project is still in the early planning phase. So far, there isn’t any definite release date.
The PowerShell team will update more information:
Additional Information
For more information on SSH please go to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4251.txt
For information on OpenSSH go to: http://www.openssh.com/index.html
For more information on SSH please go to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4251.txt
For information on OpenSSH go to: http://www.openssh.com/index.html