OpenSSH Reviews & Product Details

OpenSSH provides a robust protocol, SSH, that allows our team to remote into all of our machines securely and easily. Its wide integration with almost every Linux operating system and even Windows means a consistent experience on every computer. OpenSSH is particularly useful for servers which have no visible monitor, allowing us to control said computer without the need of complicated equipment such as serial connections or KVMs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenSSH is built with public-key infrastructure in mind. One disadvantage of this is found when sending commands remotely as part of a script. With SSH keys on either machine, we can pass a flag into the command to specify the key file, allowing for authentication without user input. The same is not possible when a password is required for the remote machine, leading to broken scripts. This is a small limitation that can be overcome with additional applications, but an annoynance nonetheless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenSSH is secure and powerful. authentication by a public/private key pair with different cyphers and has lots of configuration options.

It integrates a secure FTP client/server which should be preferred to other traditional dedicated FTP server solutions.

Although it is mostly a command-line interface to a system, can also be used to establish a secure encrypted tunnel to other services running on a server, for instance to RDP, Windows shares (Samba on Linux). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes, communication with the server could be quite slow especially if there are multiple hops to reach it.

Some errors (such as when configuring passwordless login through public/private key pairs) are not clear to understand and debugging such situations can prove to be rather difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clean file based architecture and excellent privilege separation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Microsoft port of OpenSSH is functional, but lags behind the full capabilities of the BSD/Linux packages, and does not have as clean of a user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenSSH provides a universal peer-to-peer communications channel among all Operating Systems. Using OpenSSH service on Windows 2012 servers I was able to develop scripts running on Linux to extract information from Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scripting some commands can be a challenge when operating between Linux & Windows. There are some situations which could require upwards to 8 sets of quotations to issue a Windows command from Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

simple to use, ease of install, cross system authentication easy for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Single vendor/developer issue for security reasons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The inherent security the product offers as well as the excellent support provided by the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The lack of a native GUI makes it more challenging to use for novice users and administrators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenSSH works in realtime. After login it didn't even feel that we are working on remote machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes connection gets disconnected if we leave it on idle. OpenSSH should keep the connection alive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is most useful to access Linux servers and Computers to access remotely and sort out the problems of users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Noting special that dislike but it should be by default installed in all linux systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Speed, Native, And simplicity.,It has every thing needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI could have been better. It should basically have its own client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.