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What is OpenSSH?

OpenSSH provides tools that allows you to encrypt all traffic to help manage eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks to your Internet while providing secure tunneling capabilities and more.

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OpenSSH provides tools that allows you to encrypt all traffic to help manage eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks to your Internet while providing secure tunneling capabilities and more.


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Recent OpenSSH Reviews

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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"OpenSSH is an incredible tool for remote management of servers."
OpenSSH provides a robust protocol, SSH, that allows our team to remote into all of our machines securely and easily. Its wide integration with alm...
Massimiliano A.
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Massimiliano A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The definitive way to administer servers"
OpenSSH is secure and powerful. authentication by a public/private key pair with different cyphers and has lots of configuration options. It integr...
Charlie B.
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4.5 out of 5
"OpenSSH gets the job done."
Clean file based architecture and excellent privilege separation.
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Andrei V.
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What do you like best about OpenSSH?

It allows point-to-point connections with any of elements of interconnected network of any scale.

It is fast, because it has no Graphical User Interface [GUI].

It is secure because it uses encryption methods of sophisticated nature.

IT is easy to install and use and customize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Sometimes remote sides are difficult to configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenSSH:

$ man ssh Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am getting remote desktop solutions implemented over the ssh that allows me to use cloud desktop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenSSH?

We have been using OpenSSH on our RedHat 6 and RedHat 7 servers for several years. I'm not sure if this is somethibng that comes default on Rackspace's Redhat servers or if they make it for us. Either way it generally just works. The thing I like most about it is that I have no problem running our JSCH programs that connect to the various servers running SSH from within a Java Thread Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

One thing I disliked, and this might be nitpicking or might be my ignorance, but I couldn't get it working on Windows with Cygwin. For whatever reason I just couldn't get it working Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenSSH:

Go for it? Not sure really, it just works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?

Jenkins automation. We've always used SSH for remotely accessing a box, but it;'s become especially useful to run some of our post deployment shell scripts that execute bash on a remote server via ssh after a jenkins build. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Duccio M.
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What do you like best about OpenSSH?

I love how openssh lets me access my private network from outside in complete safety. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Nothing really, it's a great software which very little for bugs and annoyances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?

Openssh lets me access my server from wherever in an easy and fast way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenSSH?

It’s an all in one for secure access and file transfers to machine across the lan, wan, and internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Sometimes the security requirements don’t match the server and it can be difficult to figure out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work in infrastructure so accessing many machines from Linux to Solaris to AIX as well as machines in AWS is very convenient with OpenSSH. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ANKIT A.
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What do you like best about OpenSSH?

easy to use , familiar command like access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

nothing as such to dislike as of now , this software is satisfying my project needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?

connecting to remote mechine and provides authentication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenSSH?

The degree of protecrion given to avoid unauthorized access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Not as easy to deploy as more commercial products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to mobitor business securely when away from the site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Milad T.
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What do you like best about OpenSSH?

OpenSSH is mature and de facto standard in industry. I use SSH on a daily basis, it is a reliable and stable technology. It is compatible and works across many platform and is battle tested. Must have tool for every developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Despite of the fact that openSSH is very stable, some of the patches/updates break compatibility with older softwares. Specially wrappers in different languages can suffer from backward incompatible patches. OpenSSH team does a great job providing documentation but it can get confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenSSH:

It is a must have tool. Learning ssh is essential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?

Secure data exchange between internal servers and managing remote/local servers with ssh. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scott K.
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What do you like best about OpenSSH?

I like the fact it's the industry standard for establishing remote secure connections, whether it be shell (cli) or using it for other features, such as copying files, or even VPN tunnels. Having the ability to custom configure hosts in your ssh config is really nice (along with being able to import features on every host) -- I absolutely love using ControlMaster's and Port Forwarding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Security vulnerabilities in the past with openssl (which is typically what is linked to ssh via the library for encryption). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenSSH:

SSH is very powerful, it's not just for connecting to remote hosts/shells or other network devices -- you can do port forward (local or remote), VPN tunnels, ControlMaster's (which allow you to re-use any existing, open connection held by the ControlMaster), X11 Forwarding, etc. Plus I don't know any admin in their right mind who wouldn't utilize and require ssh for remote connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?

It enables us to securely connect to other servers and network devices, along with having PAM integration, we're able to use a custom OTP module for 2FA that makes it easy to deploy to other systems without having to modify the source code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ricardo R.
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What do you like best about OpenSSH?

OpenSSH is the standard and omnipresent solution for secure remote shell access. It provides security and encryption for several other protocols as well such as git+ssh, sftp, scp amongst others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Given its popularity, it is a frequent target of security exploits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenSSH:

Easily available on any UNIX or Linux distribution.

Do not even thing on using it on windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?

- provides secure and encrypted access to remote shells on servers

- secure source code transfer on git servers

- provides secure file transfer between office and datacenter servers

- tunneling connections Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mahmut B.
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Senior Software Engineer
Internet
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What do you like best about OpenSSH?

Robust and fast usage of OpenSSH. It provides many features like easy installation, secure and fast access to servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Nothing I would say, it is extremely vital piece of software for application developments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenSSH:

Use it without any suspicion or dread. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?

Secure communications over single and/or multiple servers. Muxed through many-to-many pattern and suuplies transportation security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.