19 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenSSH first-hand: 5 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We've switched to certificate based authentication on SSH - no more moving around public keys. Really simplified the whole process!”
endorse · production · JimBlackwood · 2025-02-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“SSH has a command history. RDP means recalling what guis were clicked through and which options were selected.”
endorse · production · jahsome · 2023-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the keys are stored in `ssh-agent`, so they work seamlessly with any app that supports `ssh-agent`”
endorse · production · rhco · 2023-03-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my experience this works fine with just the client OpenSSH being up-to-date connecting to servers with older SSH versions”
endorse · personal · hpfr · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to go around and reconfigure sshd sometimes and ntp rather more than I'd have liked”
regret · production · toast0 · 2021-09-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The real issue with SCP at some point was the parallelism of deploys: opening 30k ssh connections single threaded”
regret · production · grogenaut · 2021-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the sshd for a year now on my media server, and have the client on all my machines. It's pretty solid”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · coldacid · 2017-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this from the daily builds for a year, maybe two, to SSH into my app servers, DB boxes and load balancers and start tunnels. It works. Really well.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · nailer · 2017-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I often SSH in, start tmux, disconnect, then reconnect later.”
neutral · personal · yoan9224 · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I still used a for loop like that many times a day for quick stuff like "I wonder what size a specific file is on each server"”
neutral · production · jasongill · 2025-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I always move sshd to a non-standard port”
neutral · personal · LukeShu · 2021-09-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At a previous job I once sshd into a legacy system which had a motd in the vein of”
neutral · production · aequitas · 2020-01-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as we run stock, standard OpenSSH, it works perfectly.”
neutral · production · rsync · 2019-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even SSH has been modified to use the SmartCards or soft token certificates for technical user accounts.”
neutral · production · Annatar · 2016-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“is handled completely differently inside openssh and I never use sftp other”
neutral · production · VLM · 2016-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I encountered this problem with SSH failing to start on Ubuntu 16.04 server.”
neutral · production · dingaling · 2016-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Openssl/OpenSSH is now up to date according to the CentOS repo, which has backported patches for exploits mentioned.”
neutral · production · mediacatch · 2015-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A separate sshd that's spawned there for the build user.”
neutral · production · z00b · 2014-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?