Re:Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
by baq on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:13AM
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The difference in 2024 is that windows ships openssh client and server as a built-in optional component and it also ships a workable terminal emulator. No WSL needed in either case.
(But yeah I'm still using putty, too)
Re:Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
by geraldhh on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:37AM
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same. if i want a term, it's putty. windows shell and builtin ssh is a backup for when i am working from a foreign system
Re:Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
by toast0 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:40AM
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Microsoft stopped shipping HyperTerminal, last I checked. It wasn't really worth the effort to make it do SSH.
I'm not really a fan of cmd or powershell, although I guess I could use them in a pinch. Wouldn't look like what I'm used to though. :p
Re:Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
by CoolCold on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:41AM
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HyperTerminal is for greybeards :)
What was meant is Windows Terminal
Re:Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
by CoolCold on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:59AM
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I've started to dropping of Putty since WSL1 and later native openssh-client landed into Windows. I was missing ability to use ~/.ssh/config - comparing to Putty's GUI way of changing things, especially en-masse, like updating JumpHost for 10+ servers (saved session in Putty terms) and no inheritance of options.
So I'm not using Putty since I guess ~ 2018 or so. Not insisting other should stop using it, of course.
I'm not 100% sure when I started using putty, but I definitely used it in 2004. I still need a ssh client and terminal emulator for Windows. I still don't want to install a unix like environment just to have a terminal. I still don't want tabs in my terminal, lots of windows works just fine. I still need X11 forwarding so I can run programs on remote systems and display them on Windows (VcXsrv is an easier to get going X server than others I've used on Windows).
I might like to have something that can do whatever magic so I can gcloud and aws auth on my remote machine without cutting and pasting giant urls and auth blobs to and fro all the time; but I'm using a auth token that needs to stay connected to the windows machine. In a more integrated corp environment this would probably be keberos/active directory/magic?