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SSH Clients recommendation for Windows?
Before assimilated into Apple drone, I've been using SSH Secure Shell as my preferred SSH client on Windows machine, however, the public/private key is not supported well in it. I know there's putty, but I don't really like it since it use .ppk for the key, which make me need to do an extra work.
Do you know/have recommendation of good SSH client in Windows that support key authentication, and better yet if it support config file with server access list as in *nix.
Thanks!
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Check out Xshell5.
Watching this thread
Debian.
Has dependencies on Windows like: VirtualBox.
SecureCRT is really good, interface wise, it does cost a little but I've gotten to love in on Windows. It supports OpenSSH keys.
I don't use my Windows workstation that often any more though, I've replaced one of my Windows workstations with Debian and XFCE and just use regular terminal with that, and iTerm2 on OS X.
When forced to use a windows box, I use Bitvise.
I always setup a small environment using Cygwin. Default GNU Utils, curl, openssh and nano. Feels just like a real Linux terminal.
Nice thing is on Cygwin you can switch between cmd and powershell if you want. Exiting CMD and Powershell can lead back to cygwin. Cygwin from what I've seen also recognises windows commands, so it's really good.
$139, and if you want sftp it's extra. GTFO.
I've used SecureCRT and while it has some creature comforts that putty lacks, the price tag was ridiculous.
https://www.royalapplications.com/ts/win/features
Bitvise tunnelier
xshell, I'm still use version 4. it's free for personal/home use
This does the job and it is free.
SSH Secure Shell Client
http://sils.unc.edu/it-services/servers/using-ssh
What makes you choose Bitvise?
This is the one I've used in the past, it doesn't get the job done because it doesn't support normal private-public key authentication, you'd need to store the public key locally, instead of private key ...
Putty!
+1 cygwin
MobaXTerm
PuTTY + MTPuTTY (multi-tabbed putty add-on). Free.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
http://www.ttyplus.com/
Check both Xshell5 and MobaXterm.
People suggested here and they're both good.
MobaXterm
kitty
Cygwin
XShell 5, it does what it should, then some more. It's robust and free for personal use.
Putty all the way. It's nice to have those features on other clients, but the original is always the best.
PuTTY was awesome in the early 2000. Lack of meaningful feature updates though has left it behind.
True, but they are probably using the why fix when not broken theory.
http://www.emtec.com/zoc/
I have used ZOC a ton in OSX, excellent choice. For Windows though, I have left it for XShell.
Putty