OpenSSH for Windows

What is OpenSSH for Windows?

• OpenSSH for Windows is a free open source package that installs OpenSSH server and utilities using the minimum Cygwin files.
• This can be used to make remote terminal connection via SSH or to transfer files securely via SFTP or SCP
• This is similar to a package previously available from Network Simplicity.
  This version was derived from the last release provided by Michael Johnson - http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net
• This OpenSSH for Windows package provides full SSH/SCP/SFTP support. The SSH terminal provides the familiar Windows Command prompt, and retains Unix/Cygwin-style paths for SCP and SFTP.

• 1st January 2012

  • OpenSSH for Windows 5.6p1-2 based release created!!
  • Happy New Year all! Since COpSSH has started charging I've resurrected this project
  • Updated all binaries to current releases
  • Added several new supporting DLLs as required by all executables in package
  • Renamed switch.exe to bash.exe to remove the need to modify and compile mkpasswd.exe each build
  • Please note there is a very minor bug in this release, detailed in the docs. I'm working on fixing this, anyone who can code in C and can offer a bit of help it would be much appreciated

• 9th May 2006

  • OpenSSH 4.2p2-2 based release created
  • German Translation still in progress as I want to change the installer so that I can slip in new language files easily in the future.
  • As I don't have a mega large amount of webspace I won't be hosting copies of the cygwin package binaries and source. The extracted/used files are included in the installer source still.

• 25th January 2006

  • OpenSSH 4.2p1-1 based release created using NSIS 2.11
  • Updated all binaries to current releases
  • Altered Cygwin Environment variable from "binmode ntsec tty" to "binmode nontsec tty" to fix permissions issue that occurred when using SFTP or SCP, where uploaded files did not inherit permissions.
  • Added cygintl-2.dll and cygintl-3.dll as now required by some exe's such as ls.exe
  • Updated mkpasswd.exe from latest source (modified source included)

• OpenSSH for Windows 5.6p1-2

  • Binary Installer
  • No installer source files will be made available until I can tidy them up a bit.

• OpenSSH 4.3p2 for Windows

  • Binary Installer
  • Installer Source Files

• OpenSSH 4.2p1-1 for Windows

  • Binary Installer
  • Installer Source Files

• Windows Support

  • Tested on:
    • Windows 7 x64
  • Previous versions have been tested on:
    • Windows 2000 SP4
    • Windows 2000 Server SP4
    • Windows XP Pro SP2 (Thanks:Bjørn Steensrud)
    • Windows NT4.0 Workstation SP6a
    • Windows 2000 Professional SP3
    • Windows 2000 Server SP3
    • Windows XP Professional
    • Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition

  If you successfully install this on any operation system other than those in the "Tested on" list then please let me know so I can add it to the list.
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Produced by Mike Dixson