Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell

Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by rsync on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @03:35PM (#9648378)

"Hmm. They can now have a path to obsolete cmd. As long as they ship a decent ssh client with the system, users will become accustomed to ssh-ing to their own box instead of using cmd."

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here ...

My OS X desktop/laptop (for instance) have ssh on them, but I almost never ssh to them ... I just open up a local terminal window.

Genuinely curious as to why one would ssh to their windows system rather than just run cmd.exe ...

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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by stoic on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @03:37PM (#9648387)

It is SSH versus RDP, not SSH versus cmd.exe.

Not all of us who manage (partial) Windows environments run Windows or care to click around a whole bunch of times if we can just use the terminal we've already got open & focused.

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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by new_hackers on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @11:40PM (#9650433)

Genuinely curious as to why one would use cmd.exe instead of PowerShell?

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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by ptaipale on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @12:56AM (#9650657)

Because cmd.exe, or command.com, has been around for over 30 years, and lots of people have learned it. PowerShell is nice but a couple of decades overdue.

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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by jfuhrman on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @05:42PM (#9649231)

This feature is more useful on Windows Server.

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