# OpenSSH Reviews **Vendor:** OpenBSD **Category:** [Encryption Key Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/encryption-key-management) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 41 ## About OpenSSH OpenSSH provides tools that allows you to encrypt all traffic to help manage eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks to your Internet while providing secure tunneling capabilities and more. ## OpenSSH Reviews ### 1. Secure SSH Access with Key-Based Authentication and SCP/SFTP Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmad J. | ICT Specialist 2, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2026 **What do you like best about OpenSSH?** It supports key-based authentication and secure file transfer (SCP/SFTP), along with encrypted remote access (SSH). **What do you dislike about OpenSSH?** Managing SSH keys across many users or servers. **What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure remote access and data transfer over untrusted networks. ### 2. OpenSSH is an incredible tool for remote management of servers. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Commercial Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenSSH?** OpenSSH provides a robust protocol, SSH, that allows our team to remote into all of our machines securely and easily. Its wide integration with almost every Linux operating system and even Windows means a consistent experience on every computer. OpenSSH is particularly useful for servers which have no visible monitor, allowing us to control said computer without the need of complicated equipment such as serial connections or KVMs. **What do you dislike about OpenSSH?** OpenSSH is built with public-key infrastructure in mind. One disadvantage of this is found when sending commands remotely as part of a script. With SSH keys on either machine, we can pass a flag into the command to specify the key file, allowing for authentication without user input. The same is not possible when a password is required for the remote machine, leading to broken scripts. This is a small limitation that can be overcome with additional applications, but an annoynance nonetheless. **What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to access all of our servers is important to us. However, many servers lack an external monitor or input devices that would traditionally be used to interface with the computer. OpenSSH allows us to securely connect to our server remotely using a simple terminal command. This enables a more productive workflow along with the possibility of scripts to automate everyday tasks such as checking server logs. ### 3. The definitive way to administer servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Massimiliano A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenSSH?** OpenSSH is secure and powerful. authentication by a public/private key pair with different cyphers and has lots of configuration options. It integrates a secure FTP client/server which should be preferred to other traditional dedicated FTP server solutions. Although it is mostly a command-line interface to a system, can also be used to establish a secure encrypted tunnel to other services running on a server, for instance to RDP, Windows shares (Samba on Linux). **What do you dislike about OpenSSH?** Sometimes, communication with the server could be quite slow especially if there are multiple hops to reach it. Some errors (such as when configuring passwordless login through public/private key pairs) are not clear to understand and debugging such situations can prove to be rather difficult. **Recommendations to others considering OpenSSH:** Try to implement it on a Linux server because it is already integrated in the system. If installing it on recent version of Windows, go to "optional features" and you'll find the most recent version supported by Microsoft. On older versions, you might quite easily install it through Chocolatey. Do not try the Cygwin route because rather outdated. **What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using OpenSSH to administer several servers remotely in the cloud. This way, I can manage the whole infrastructure of my clients through smart working, without being physically present in the datacenters. I also use it to perform remote backups, by chaining it to RSync and RSnapshot ensuring an encrypted communication between servers. Through SSH I'm also creating secure RDP connections to Windows servers passing through a middle server. I used it on Windows server too, although it is more complicate to install and can require half a day to find out the proper way to set it up (which is different depending on the version of Windows). ### 4. OpenSSH gets the job done. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charlie B. | R & D Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenSSH?** Clean file based architecture and excellent privilege separation. **What do you dislike about OpenSSH?** The Microsoft port of OpenSSH is functional, but lags behind the full capabilities of the BSD/Linux packages, and does not have as clean of a user interface. **Recommendations to others considering OpenSSH:** There is an initial learning curve to any system using public/private keypairs that can be hard to surmount. OpenSSH is one of the easier paths to mastering such systems, but it can still be daunting at first. Stick with it and you will get all your time back in the long run! **What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenSSH is a good tool for managing co-ordination between multiple systems in a secure, scalable and easily upgraded fashion. It can trivially convert legacy processes based on less secure systems (such as telnet, FTP and the Berkeley R-protocols) and is the basis for remote control software such as Ansible and hardlink backup systems. Updates are timely and operational problems are virtually non-existent; OpenSSH is highly reliable. ### 5. Windows OpenSSH provides enhanced management. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles E. K. | Customer Service Representative / Concierge, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenSSH?** OpenSSH provides a universal peer-to-peer communications channel among all Operating Systems. Using OpenSSH service on Windows 2012 servers I was able to develop scripts running on Linux to extract information from Windows. **What do you dislike about OpenSSH?** Scripting some commands can be a challenge when operating between Linux & Windows. There are some situations which could require upwards to 8 sets of quotations to issue a Windows command from Linux. **What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?** True peer connectivity between Linux & Windows. I designed an automated inventory system running on Linux with a MySQL database. Pearl scripts would issue Windows WMI commands to retrieve hardware inventory information to update the database. I always had a 100% accurate database for my on-line systems. ### 6. Basic required service on all new machines **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John b. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenSSH?** simple to use, ease of install, cross system authentication easy for new users. **What do you dislike about OpenSSH?** Single vendor/developer issue for security reasons. **What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?** remote maintenance of machines, and all general secure communication for machine to machine. ### 7. OpenSSH review 9/2/20 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gregory C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenSSH?** The inherent security the product offers as well as the excellent support provided by the community. **What do you dislike about OpenSSH?** The lack of a native GUI makes it more challenging to use for novice users and administrators. **What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have met a requirement regarding multifactor authentication leveraging OpenSSH passing tokens residing on the users machine as part of the authentication process. ### 8. Best method to connect remote machine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Swapnil h. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenSSH?** OpenSSH works in realtime. After login it didn't even feel that we are working on remote machine. **What do you dislike about OpenSSH?** Sometimes connection gets disconnected if we leave it on idle. OpenSSH should keep the connection alive. **What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?** As I am currently working from home OpenSSH is helping me connect all my office machines from my Linux machine at home. I am able to connect multiple machines in multiple tabs of Linux terminal. ### 9. OpenSSH is backbone for remote access **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** indravadan j. | System Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenSSH?** It is most useful to access Linux servers and Computers to access remotely and sort out the problems of users. **What do you dislike about OpenSSH?** Noting special that dislike but it should be by default installed in all linux systems. **What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am sorting problem with openssh are patch updating, installation of software, download, lamp server problem, etc. ### 10. OpenSSH is trusted by community, It is used by almost every person who manages servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenSSH?** Speed, Native, And simplicity.,It has every thing needed **What do you dislike about OpenSSH?** UI could have been better. It should basically have its own client. **What problems is OpenSSH solving and how is that benefiting you?** remote login to AWS machine. - [View OpenSSH pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/openssh/reviews/openssh-review-4336664?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+02%3A34%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=67f4890b-5574-43d6-81df-cb4a3a22dea7&secure%5Btoken%5D=25d835e8b8e496b3dab790d50e49a2cc6b631047c3a85dce8c584f421e074a75&format=llm_user) ## OpenSSH Features **Functionality** - Durability - Envelope Encryption - Automation **Compliance** - Access Management - At-Risk Analysis - DLP Configuration - Sensitive Data Compliance **Availability** - API/Integrations - Service Integration - Regional Support - Scalability **Administration** - Database Management - Deduplication - Backup - API / integrations **Administration** - Auditing - Compliance - Management Console **Security ** - Multi-Factor Authentication - Data Transport - Data Types - Security Tools ## Top OpenSSH Alternatives - [Egnyte](https://www.g2.com/products/egnyte/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,130 reviews) - [Virtru Email Encryption](https://www.g2.com/products/virtru-email-encryption/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (403 reviews) - [AWS Key Management Service (KMS)](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-key-management-service-kms/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (29 reviews)