OpenSSH
Tool and Usage
Project details
- Licenses
- BSD
- Multi-license
- Programming language
- C
- Latest release
- No release found
- Latest release date
- Unknown
Project health
Links
| OpenSSH website |
Introduction
OpenSSH is a much-used connectivity tool for remote administration of Linux systems. It uses the SSH protocol and encrypts all traffic to eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other related attacks.
Usage and audience
OpenSSH is commonly used for system administration. Target users for this tool are general public and system administrators.
Installation
Supported operating systems
OpenSSH is known to work on AIX, Android, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and macOS.
OpenSSH alternatives
Similar tools to OpenSSH:
Cowrie
Cowrie is a honeypot to emulate SSH and telnet services. It can be used to learn attack methods and as an additional layer for security monitoring.
Dockpot
Dockpot uses Docker containers and HonSSH to create on-demand SSH honeypots. It forwards traffic for analysis and learning about attack patterns.
Fail2ban
Fail2Ban is an intrusion prevention software framework that protects computer servers from brute-force attacks
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