Bitvise SSH Server is a utility that provides users the means to access their personal computers remotely. It comes with support for virtual accounts, Windows groups, and server-side forwarding.
Its interface looks decent and it's comprised of the main tab and a content area for displaying page information. It has no skin themes or advanced customizations. Yet, the main screen is quite intuitive and hides no secrets for networking based users. The only noticeable con is the button's clunkiness at times.
Bitvise SSH Server lets users start and stop the server and configure its settings, password cache, and host key pairs. If you're stuck, you can click the question mark icons to learn more about every configuration aspect.
Next, you can find detailed information about your sessions, like connection time, client version, account type, or remote IP address. Moreover, it includes useful options, such as session disconnect, IP block, or manage blocked IPs.
Another interesting feature is the Git integration, an option that enables users to configure the path to their Git binaries and repositories.
All things considered, Bitvise SSH Server is a useful tool for managing Windows servers remotely. It has lots of various features, and they do work well, but I find its cost to be a bit overpriced.
v6.4 [Sep 7, 2015]
Installation: On initial installation, the SSH Server will now generate a default 3072-bit RSA keypair, instead of a 1024-bit DSA keypair. This is in addition to the ECDSA/nistp256 host key that has been generated since version 6.41.
Windows Firewall: The SSH Server's automatically managed IPv4 and IPv6 firewall rules no longer overlap. In previous versions, the rules overlapped, so that removal of a binding for one protocol caused the firewall exception for that same port to be also removed for the other protocol, until the server was restarted.
The SSH Server now includes a TelnetForwarder utility. This utility can be used to forward a terminal session established via the SSH Server to a legacy Telnet server. Currently, to use this utility, configure the following in a user or group settings entry in Advanced settings:
Set Shell access type to Custom shell settings.
Set Terminal shell to a value of the form:
"C:\Program Files\Bitvise SSH Server\TelnetForwarder.exe" host:port
Or to send additional information to the Telnet server:
"C:\Program Files\Bitvise SSH Server\TelnetForwarder.exe" host:port -senddata="%SSH_CLIENT%"
Set Permit exec requests to No.
Enable the setting Always use 'dumb' pseudo-terminal.
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