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Users consistently praise OpenSSH for its security and ease of use, highlighting its effectiveness in establishing secure remote connections across various operating systems. Many appreciate its flexibility and the extensive community support available, making it a reliable choice for system administrators. However, some note that the lack of a native GUI can pose challenges for novice users.
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Mahmut B.
MB
Senior Software Engineer
Internet
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best service for tunneling and secure application deployment"
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.

CH
Application Developer
Internet
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Administration Made Easy"
What do you like best about OpenSSH?

OpenSSH is the default SSH package installed on most *nix distributions, I've never had to install anything else to make SSH work, it just does out of the box. OpenSSH is easy to configure and is packed full of useful features that make server administration a breeze. You can define various settings on a per-host basis using a dead simple configuration format so you never have to remember what arguments to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Like many *nix tools, OpenSSH serves its documentation in a format similar to man-pages. To a user unfamiliar with man pages finding the right thing can become a witch hunt when all you need is a single argument. More newcomer friendly documentation would definitely make OpenSSH the perfect tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James D.
JD
IT Infrastructure Engineer
Oil & Energy
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"How else do you plan to access a *nix server remotely? "
What do you like best about OpenSSH?

Open SSH is a very powerful remote access tool. It runs on just about anything *nix based, from Linux to BSD to OS X.

I use it daily for server configuration and monitoring.

Its fast and secure.

Provides full console access as if you were siting in front of a terminal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

There really isn't anything to like about OpenSSH, it is the industry standard of remote connection to a *NIX server.

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Marc S.
MS
VP Product Development
Information Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"There is OpenSSH, and nothing else"
What do you like best about OpenSSH?

Free, Open Source, easy to use. OpenSSH/ssh is such a common part of a developer/ops person's toolkit, that it's basically taken for granted. I've been using OpenSSH tools for 10+ years, literally almost every single day of my life...and i've never once had a second thought about using something else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Nothing. Honestly, nothing. If you're comfortable on the command line, then ssh (et. al.) will just be a part of your everyday language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Josh V.
JV
Senior Software Engineer
Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"I use it every day"
What do you like best about OpenSSH?

I love being able to connect to my various systems and have a complete system at my finger tips. Most of what I do with my systems can be done with the command line, but occasionally I will fire up a graphical program with some delicious X forwarding. I also use the tunneling and SOCKS proxy features quite regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

I honestly can't think of anything I dislike about OpenSSH. It's been great for the last 16 or so years that I've been using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

M. Serhat D.
MD
Senior Software Developer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Administer Remote Servers Securely"
What do you like best about OpenSSH?

OpenSSH is a key tool for system administration. It is totally free and provides you secure connections with any remote machine. OpenSSH is the default SSH agent of many popular linux distributions. I have been using Ubuntu for a long time and I never needed to install another package to handle my remote connections. OpenSSH is highly customizable, you can set your own connection settings both from command line and configuration files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Learning all the SSH commands and tricks takes time. Generating SSH keys, configuring the environment and setting up preferences requires experience. OpenSSH is an old software but it is not well documented yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cesar I.
CI
CTO
Computer Games
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easiest way to admin a remote server"
What do you like best about OpenSSH?

SSH and OpenSSH's implementation are the easiest way to get into a remote server and manage it. Getting a remote shell is just the beginning, port forwarding, and even X forwarding are key features that make ssh a great protocol. Password-less logins with public keys it's very useful as well as being able to automate tasks across servers saves tons of hours and repetitive work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Configuration and hardening can be hard. Also windows as a server it's mostly out of the question. The handling of RSA and DSA keys can be a bit difficult sometimes. It's easy to loose a key and then you could be left out of a server. To remedy that there are some other tools that can help with the backup and handling of keys but it's not part of OpenSSH. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Phil C.
PC
Community Volunteer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"I can't live without SSH , Can you ?"
What do you like best about OpenSSH?

It just works and very configurable, and this is so magical you will never stop learning all possible tricks can SSH offers to you and makes you life easier and simpler, specially if you want selfhosted services for managing your data. One other cool thing is to be able to use it on your phone and get back your sessions using GNU screen and use CLI or ncurses utilities (IRC, mutt etc) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

For advanced usage, It's not that obvious to use without a litle of network knowledges. Also I use mosh , orautossh and GNU/screen to make my session persistant, It could be also neat to add honts for relay services managed by community .or yourself to avoid NAT blockage (think teamviewer)..

I wish to have nice mobile app that use SSH as transport and "emulate" local processing, like file editor or chat client or webbrowser seamless., and eventually manage disconnection or cache, Last feature It would be good to have support for very asynchronous sessions on offline system, like a POST / RECEIVE over days or reboots, maybe a "shell service" over mail already exists

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Secure Shell Tool"
What do you like best about OpenSSH?

It's an opensource and secure tool for connecting to linux and other appliances with shell console connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Not much to dislike about this tool. I use it daily! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sunil W.
SW
Consultant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Everyone should learn SSH! OpenSSH is the common implementation."
What do you like best about OpenSSH?

It's everywhere. It's mature. It works pretty much the same way across platforms. The development team care about the security of the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenSSH?

Despite OpenSSH's own work, SSH, the underlying protocol, is still not that easy to understand. There isn't enough education for end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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