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joestringer · 2012-05-01 01:22:43+00:00

And they support keys -- Although it seems the primary way to use them is by putting your keys into your 'Downloads' folder, which isn't exactly ideal.

Looks like this will eventually replace the inbuilt ssh supplied with crosh (Chromium OS shell)

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StavrosK | karma 1 | avg karma 0.0 · | 2020-05-10 12:57:47+00:00

I'm not sure if they will support those yet. I could never get SSH working well, whereas SSH with U2F works perfectly (and they do support that). I'm guessing they will add GPG key integration, as once the key can perform crypto operations, it's just a matter of host software.

jamiesonbecker | karma 410 | avg karma 0.6 · | 2015-10-20 02:18:40+00:00

Cool. Looks like Userify.com (SSH Key management) will support yet another platform sometime next year.

(disclaimer: I work there.)

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beagle3 | karma 16421 | avg karma 2.62 · | 2021-12-16 12:27:31

SSH has included file encryption for a few versions now, and iirc supports yubikeys — probably would be more useful a backend than age.

Millennium | karma 1139 | avg karma 2.06 · | 2012-10-25 11:39:29+00:00

It's useful stuff.

What I'd really like to see, though, is a tutorial for using SSH keys from a thumbdrive in a way that doesn't depend on Gnome or KDE.

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ConstantineXVI | karma 2870 | avg karma 3.39 · | 2012-09-19 18:29:13+00:00

There's a built-in SSH as part of crosh[0] and a more usable version paired with a HTML-based terminal emulator as an app[1]

[0] basic troubleshooting shell in CrOS

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pnhechapfaindjhomp...

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noinsight | karma 1215 | avg karma 3.86 · | 2016-08-19 23:55:07

There's also the official SSH client that is a NaCl version of OpenSSH, I've been toying with it since it seems kind of superior to PuTTY on Windows.

geoka9 | karma 3349 | avg karma 3.56 · | 2015-12-13 16:36:41+00:00

Interestingly enough, tsocks (+ssh -D) works with firefox but not chromium.

Lunartix | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2021-10-26 14:01:32

OpenSSH also supports "bookmarks" (ssh_config) and sftp.

arca_vorago | karma 3719 | avg karma 2.21 · | 2015-02-09 22:47:19

So this is why I can't just have a native OpenSSH client and have to install some random SSH app made by some developer I have non source access to...

Thank you very much for the clarification.

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2ion | karma 957 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2020-03-31 17:16:45+00:00

It's usually not a full replacement. SSH for macOS has some integration built in that current OpenSSH does not have, like Keychain integration.

georgemcbay | karma 14500 | avg karma 4.47 · | 2013-05-12 21:38:34+00:00

You can just ssh via crosh without having to install anything extra. ssh in crosh does not require developer mode to be on.

boxingrock | karma 7 | avg karma 0.47 · | 2022-03-15 18:30:08

that's awesome. i recently built an ssh management interface using some of the same libraries, i'll be sure to check it out.

vaporup | karma 94 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2022-08-31 11:01:57

Yes, I use them for work. Checkout ssh-certinfo also:

https://github.com/vaporup/ssh-tools/blob/master/ssh-certinf...

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AnssiH | karma 1595 | avg karma 2.81 · | 2020-07-04 12:03:44

Note also that ssh and scp (from OpenSSH) are included in Windows by default since 2018.

resoluteteeth | karma 4198 | avg karma 4.51 · | 2021-01-21 20:29:35+00:00

If you just want ssh it's even easier to use u2f/fido now since it's built into openssh.

com2kid | karma 10367 | avg karma 3.46 · | 2018-12-13 03:40:26+00:00

From a developer perspective, Windows does SSH keys just fine. You can't SSH into Windows boxes (yet apparently!) but you can SSH out of them a-ok.

Window Key, type "optional features" and install the OpenSSH client.

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noinsight | karma 1215 | avg karma 3.86 · | 2017-06-12 20:03:49+00:00

It would be better if they supported the OpenSSH PKI format.

simonh | karma 32703 | avg karma 2.95 · | 2017-05-31 02:54:37

I don't know enough about ssh for Chrome and bash for Windows to get your point. Isn't bash for Windows (as part of WSL?) free? What is it that costs more than $5 using bash for windows but is free with ssh for Chrome? Genuinely interested, I'm on OSX mostly but I'm WSL curious.

password4321 | karma 2755 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2021-10-26 14:18:33

OpenSSH has been available in Windows 10 since 2018, though I'm not sure how the terminal gotchas work out in practice.

Bitvise SSH has been free for all uses for several years. Can't mention it here without reference to their SEO squatting of putty.org but it's a quality tool.

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