SSH via PowerShell

Question

Is it possible to open an SSH session in PowerShell? Currently I use PuTTY but it would be nice if that were not required.

Answer 1

Not built in of course, but since Powershell can do anything .Net can do, there is a way.

Paid solution would be /n Software's NetCmdlets.

Free solution would be using the suggestions of this blog post.

Answer 2

If the target machine is a Windows box, then you can use PowerShell Remoting, instead.

It's definitely not the same as SSH. There are pros (bringing objects back over the wire!) and cons (what if the target is Linux?).

Answer 3

Download OpenSSH for Windows and choose to install just the client during the installation. The entire installer inlcuding the server is less 3MB and the client works just fine.

Answer 4

http://www.powershellinside.com/powershell/ssh/ Free for personall use.

Answer 5

There's an alternative (free) PowerShell SSH solution, using a newer library implementation, see vBlog >> SSH Client Using PowerShell

Answer 6

I wrote a module for dealing with SSH sessions from PowerShell, based on the SSH.NET library found on CodePlex. It has New-SshSession to create connections (multiple targets using different credentials is supported), and then you can use Invoke-SshCommand to run commands against any number of target hosts. There's even an Enter-SshSession which has a very basic, interactive shell.

The article is here: http://www.powershelladmin.com/wiki/SSH_from_PowerShell_using_the_SSH.NET_library

Joakim

Answer 7

I am still posting an answer to this question, because i found the accepted answer not suiting my needs at all (Only a paid solution or another that doesn't handle the terminal well).

So the obvious solution to this problem is to install cygwin. Do a minimal install if you just want ssh, but since powershell provides a basic level of compatibility with *nix shells (basic commands are still there, "/" for directories, etc), it's really possible to use cygwin stuff inside Powershell.

Cygwin install here