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.

OpenSSH is the product that started it all. It is *the* standard. It’s keygen files are not proprietary and are accepted everywhere. Even though it’s free, you can still get paid support. However, there’s so much free information that paid support is not needed.

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).