Friday, May 9, 2014

Move to using sshd for Windows

Maybe I am the only one, but WinRM is just not cutting it for me anymore.

Some of the problems included poor support for Ruby/Vagrant, the requirement to use a Windows client unless you want to loosen up security, and no cert-based authentication.

I really wanted a single method to communicate with my servers, a single certificate, and be able to use Windows or Linux clients.

I finally gave up and created an open source cookbook that installs and configures OpenSSH on Windows.

It has it's quirks, but overall is working great. I can scp files to the windows box, execute chef-client, and do a msdeploy all from scp/ssh commands on a Linux, Mac, or Windows client..

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