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An SSH client is a software program which uses the secure shell protocol to connect to a remote computer. This article compares a selection of notable clients.
General[edit]
Name | Developer | Status | First release | Latest release | Current version | Based on | License | Source available |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AbsoluteTelnet | Celestial Software (Brian Pence) | Active | 1996 | 2016-10-12 | 10.16[1] | Proprietary | No | |
ConnectBot | Kenny Root / Jeffrey Sharkey | Active | 2007-11 | 2018-11-09 | 1.9.2 [2] | Trilead SSH-2 for Java | Apache | Yes |
CRAX Commander | Soft4U2 Marcin Słowik | Active | 2013-09 | 2015-12-01 | 1.10.6 | libSSH2 | Proprietary | Yes |
Dropbear | Matt Johnston | Active | 2003-04-06 | 2017-05-18 | 2017.75 | MIT | Yes | |
eSSH Client | Ecode Software | Inactive | 2002-07 | Proprietary | No | |||
lsh | Niels Möller | Active | 1999-05-23 | 2013-06-26 | 2.1 | GPL | Yes | |
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) | The OpenBSD project | Active | 1999-12-01 | 2019-4-17 | 8.0 | ossh | BSD | Yes |
PuTTY | Simon Tatham | Active | 1999-01-22 | 2019-03-16 | 0.73[3] | MIT | Yes | |
SecureCRT | VanDyke Software | Active | 1998-06 | 2018-11-15 | 8.5.2[4] | Proprietary | No | |
SSH Tectia Client/ConnectSecure | SSH Communications Security (former Tectia) | Active | 1995-07 | 2017-06-22 | 6.4.15 | Own implementation in C | Proprietary | No |
SSH Secure Shell Client | SSH Communications Security Corp. | Inactive | 2000 | 2003 | 3.2.9[5] | Proprietary | No | |
Tera Term | TeraTerm Project | Active | 2004 | 2018-08-31 | 4.100[6] | Tera Term Pro 2.3 (1994–1998) | BSD | Yes |
TN3270 Plus | SDI USA, Inc. | Active | 2006 | Proprietary | No | |||
TtyEmulator | FCS Software | Active | 2002-05 | Proprietary | No | |||
ZOC Terminal | EmTec, Innovative Software | Active | 1995-07-01 | 2018-10-17 | 7.21.1[7] | Proprietary | No |
Platform[edit]
The operating systems or virtual machines the SSH clients are designed to run on without emulation; there are several possibilities:
- Partial indicates that while it works, the client lacks important functionality compared to versions for other OSs but may still be under development.
The list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common platforms today.
Name | macOS | Windows | Cygwin | BSD | Linux | Solaris | Java | OpenVMS | z/OS | AIX | HP-UX | iOS | Android | Maemo | Windows Phone |
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AbsoluteTelnet | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
ConnectBot | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
CRAX Commander | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Dropbear | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 1] | No | Yes | ? |
eSSH Client | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
lsh | Yes | No | No | Partial[Note 2] | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) | Included | Included[Note 3] | Included | Included | Included[Note 4] | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 1] | Yes | Yes | ? |
PuTTY | Partial | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | Beta |
SecureCRT | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? |
SmartFTP | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
SSH Tectia Client/ConnectSecure | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 5] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
Tera Term | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
TN3270 Plus | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
TtyEmulator | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
WinSCP | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes[Note 1] | No | No | ? |
ZOC | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Name | OS X | Windows | Cygwin | BSD | Linux | Solaris | Java | OpenVMS | z/OS | AIX | HP-UX | iOS | Android | Maemo | Windows Phone |
- ^ abcOnly for jailbroken devices.
- ^lsh supports only one BSD platform officially, FreeBSD.
- ^Included and enabled by default since windows 10 version 1803. Win32-OpenSSH can be installed as an optional component in the Windows versiones before Windows 10 version 1803 to Windows 10 version 1709. Portable version can be download from Win32-OpenSSH for other versions.
- ^The majority of Linux distributions have OpenSSH as an official package, but a few do not.
- ^In the form of a Java Secure File Transfer API.
Technical[edit]
Name | User interface | SSH1 | SSH2 | Additional protocols | Tunneling | Session multiplexing [Note 1] | Kerberos | IPv6 | Terminal | SFTP/SCP | Proxy client[Note 2] | |||
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TELNET | rlogin | Port forwarding | SOCKS [Note 3] | VPN [Note 4] | ||||||||||
AbsoluteTelnet | GUI (multi-session, single-window) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP |
Dropbear | command line | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
lsh | command line | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) | command line | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ProxyCommand |
PuTTY | GUI or command line | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes[Note 5] | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 6] | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet; Local |
SecureCRT | GUI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet; Generic |
SmartFTP | GUI (multi-session, single-window) | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP |
Tera Term | GUI | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | SCP | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet |
TN3270 Plus | GUI | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | SOCKS 4 |
TtyEmulator | GUI or command line | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | SOCKS 4,4a, 5; HTTP Local |
WinSCP[Note 7] | GUI or command line | Yes | Yes | No | No | limited[Note 8] | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | simple | Yes | SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet; Local |
ZOC | TDI or command line | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | SCP through terminal[Note 9] | SOCKS 4; 5; HTTP; Jumpserver |
Name | User interface | SSH1 | SSH2 | Additional protocols | Tunneling | Session multiplexing [Note 1] | Kerberos | IPv6 | Terminal | SFTP/SCP | Proxy client[Note 2] | |||
TELNET | rlogin | Port forwarding | SOCKS [Note 3] | VPN [Note 4] |
- ^ abAccelerating OpenSSH connections with ControlMaster.
- ^ abCan the SSH client connect itself through a proxy? This is distinct from offering a SOCKS proxy or port forwarding.
- ^ abThe ability for the SSH client to perform dynamic port forwarding by acting as a local SOCKS proxy.
- ^ abThe ability for the SSH client to establish a VPN, e.g. using TUN/TAP.
- ^The version 0.63 supports GSSAPI. Successfully tested on Win 8 using Active Directory
- ^The PuTTY developers provide SCP and SFTP functionality as binaries for separate download.
- ^ Winscp bundles a number of software components including putty. [1].
- ^WinSCP connection tunneling.
- ^SCP according to ZOC features page.
Features[edit]
Name | Keyboard mapping | Session tabs | ZMODEM transfers | Find text in buffer | Mouse input support[Note 1] | Unicode support | URL hyperlinking | Public key authentication | Smart card support | Hardware encryption | FIPS 140-2 validation | Scripting | Shared Database | Auto-reconnect | CA Certificates |
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AbsoluteTelnet | full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) | ? | No | No | ? | Yes[Note 2] | Yes | not native[Note 3] | Yes | Yes[Note 4] | Yes | Partial[Note 5] | No | No | ? | Yes[Note 6] |
PuTTY | No | No[Note 7] | No | No | Yes | Yes | No[Note 8] | Yes | No[Note 9] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No[Note 10] |
SecureCRT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? |
SmartFTP | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | AES-NI | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
Tera Term | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
TN3270 Plus | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
TtyEmulator | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
ZOC | full | Yes | Yes | Alt+F | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | Yes | pkcs#11 | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
- ^The ability to transmit mouse input to text mode applications such as Midnight Commander
- ^Only when the terminal itself supports mouse input. Most graphical ones do, e.g. xterm
- ^No native URL highlighting; however most graphical consoles support URL highlighting
- ^OpenSSH needs to be patched to ask for the pin of the smartcard. If you don't want to patch OpenSSH you can use ssh-agent (the link is in french).
- ^Validated when running OpenSSH 2.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 in FIPS mode or when running OpenSSH 1.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in FIPS mode
- ^OpenSSH supports the minimal certificate format since v5.4. See the release notes for OpenSSH v5.4. [2]
- ^PuTTY does not support tabs directly, but many wrappers are available that do (e.g. PuTTY Connection Manager, SuperPuTTY, MTPuTTY, PuTTYTabManager, mRemoteNG, WinSSHTerm, PuTTY Manager, PuttyTabs and TWSC (Terminal Window ShortCuts)).
- ^PuTTY does not support this, some forks of PuTTY do (e.g. PuTTY Tray and KiTTY).
- ^PuTTY does not support smart cards, but is supported in puttywincrypt, PuTTY-CAC, and in Smartcard Authentication – Secure & Easy putty version.
- ^Putty v71.0 doesn't support Openssh Certificates. See Ben Harris' 2016-04-21 wish. [3] and [4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^https://www.celestialsoftware.net/absolutetelnet-ssh-client/absolutetelnet/ssh-version-history-9.53.html
- ^https://connectbot.org/
- ^'PuTTY Change Log'.
- ^'SecureCRT Release History'.
- ^https://sils.unc.edu/it-services/servers/using-ssh
- ^'Download Files List – Tera Term – OSDN'.
- ^'ZOC version number and version history'.
External links[edit]
- SSH for Java – Comparing Java clients
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