Open Source Linux SSH Software
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View 15 business solutionsBrowse free open source SSH software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source SSH software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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SyncTERM
Cross-platform BBS (ANSI) Terminal
A cross-platform ANSI-BBS terminal designed to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH. Supports ANSI music and the IBM charset when possible. Will run from a console, under X11 using XLib, or using SDL. -
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PAC is a Perl/GTK replacement for SecureCRT/Putty/etc (linux ssh/telnet/... gui)... It provides a GUI to configure connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc. You like 'SecureCRT/SSHMenu'? Check this tool and let me know
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Portable OpenSSH
Complete implementation of the SSH protocol
Portable OpenSSH is a cross-platform implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol that provides encrypted communication and secure remote access over untrusted networks. It originates from the OpenSSH project maintained by the OpenBSD community and adapts the core OpenBSD implementation so it can run on many operating systems including Linux, macOS, and Windows. The software suite enables administrators and developers to securely log into remote systems, transfer files, and create encrypted tunnels for network traffic. By encrypting all communications between client and server, it protects against threats such as eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and data interception. The portable distribution follows the development of the main OpenSSH codebase while adding compatibility layers for multiple operating systems and authentication systems. -
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FileCentipede
File centipede is an internet file download manager
File centipede is an internet file download/upload manager, Torrent client, WebDAV client, FTP client, and SSH client. It's fast, customizable, user-friendly, multi-protocols supported, and free with no ads. It also contains many useful auxiliary tools such as HTTP requester, file merge, and encoders. With the browser integration, you can download audio and videos from websites, even encrypted videos. File centipede makes everything easy and efficient, it's the best internet download manager you can find. -
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Russh
Rust SSH client & server library
Russh provides a Rust library for implementing SSH clients and servers with a modern, async-friendly design. It exposes building blocks for authentication, channel management, port forwarding, and key handling, allowing you to embed SSH functionality directly into Rust applications. The API is designed to be explicit and composable, making it possible to implement custom behaviors like reverse tunnels, interactive shells, and service multiplexing. Because performance and safety are central, the code leverages Rust’s type system to reduce classes of runtime errors common in network protocol implementations. The project also includes examples and discussion threads that show how other tools integrate it for web-based clients or gateway services. For teams building terminals, proxies, or embedded management planes, it offers a robust foundation without shelling out to external binaries. -
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Doffen SSH Tunnel
Manage hierarchy of ssh sessions and tunnels
Ssh terminal, file transfer and tunneling tool. The focus is on running tunnels inside tunnels. That one has to jump through several machines. Please see the wiki pages for documentation. https://sourceforge.net/p/doffensshtunnel/wiki/Home/ -
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nxshell
Next Shell
NxShell is a modern, Electron-based terminal emulator that works on all major operating systems out there: Windows, macOS, and Linux. -
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snowflake
A modern graphical SSH client
https://github.com/subhra74/snowflake Snowflake is a graphical SSH client. It has a file browser, terminal emulator, resource/process manager, disk space analyzer, text editor, log viewer and lots of other helpful tools, which makes it easy to work with remote servers. It runs on Linux and Windows. Snowflake has been tested with Ubuntu server, CentOS, RHEL, OpenSUSE, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and HP-UX -
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Secure File Transfer for Windows with Cerberus by RedwoodCerberus supports unlimited users and connections on a single IP, with built-in encryption, 2FA, and a browser-based web client — all deployable in under 15 minutes with a 25-day free trial.
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respite HTTP Injector +
Multi-platform Java HTTP Injector
Bypass internet firewalls by connecting to HTTP proxies with custom headers. Purely coded in Java so it supports all platforms. Source Code: https://github.com/AlizerUncaged/HTTP-Injector -
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libSSL
C++ SSL Library
C++ library that wraps both raw and SSL functionality into an easy-to-use set of classes. Raw sockets supported: * IPV4 TCP Platforms currently supported: * Windows The following SSL libraries are supported: * OpenSSL 1.0.2d Additional platforms, raw libraries (e.g. IPV6) etc. will be added in due course, the architecture has been designed to accommodate expansion. -
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net2ftp
net2ftp is a web-based FTP client
net2ftp is a web based FTP client. Use it at http://www.net2ftp.com or install it on your own web server (PHP needed, MySQL optional). Features: browse, copy/move/delete files and directories recursively, upload, download, edit, view code with syntax highlighting, zip and unzip. net2ftp now also supports FTP over SSH. -
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Tunnel
GUI Professional Tool for SHH Management
Tunnel is a powerful, user-friendly SSH connection manager built with Python and GTK. It provides a modern graphical interface for managing multiple SSH connections, file transfers, port forwarding, and remote system administration. -
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MurmurSSH
Lightweight, privacy-focused SSH and SFTP client for Linux.
MurmurSSH is an open-source SSH and SFTP client for Linux, designed as a simple, reliable, and fully local alternative to cloud-based or complex tools. It focuses on clarity and usability, offering a minimal interface, fast connection handling, and straightforward file operations. All profiles and configurations are stored locally — no accounts, syncing, or background services. MurmurSSH supports password and SSH key authentication, including passphrase-protected keys. Host key verification is handled transparently, allowing users to manage trust decisions per session or permanently. The integrated SFTP browser enables efficient file management, including upload, download, move, and recursive transfers with multi-file support. A terminal can be launched externally when needed, keeping workflows flexible without forcing an embedded terminal. -
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pyTunnel
ssh tunnel manager
pyTunnel is a ssh tunnel manager ( port forwarding ) written purely in python. You can start and stop tunnels or groups of tunnels with a click of a button. Supports nested tunnels and inter-tunnel dependency relationships. -
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HSSH (Hybrid ssh) is developing to transmit the large size data at high speed on the long distance and wideband infrastructure. It has achieved the fast transfer by changing both ways pipeio transfer of ssh into the UDP (using UDT). cf. HSCP
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Ballast is a tool for balancing user load across SSH servers that supports user-specific policies as well as traditional policies based on metrics such as CPU load. It includes a simple client, a lightweight data server, and a data collection agent.
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HPN-SSH is a series of performance patches for OpenSSH. By addressing network limitations and CPU limitations significant throughput performance can be realized. Gains of close to two orders of magnitude are possible on long fat network paths. The official git repo is now available at http://github.com/rapier1/openssh-portable. The Sourceforge repository should not be seen as the canonical repository for HPN-SSH. We will update it as we can but users should look to github to generate patches We also support Ubuntu packages. Add them to your package manager with `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rapier1/hpnssh` Fedora RPMs can be added with, `sudo dnf copr enable rapier1/hpnssh`
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Middleware for Existing SSH Hosts (Mesh)
Fine-grained authorizations and single sign-on for SSH remote commands
Mesh is a secure, lightweight grid middleware that is based on the addition of a single sign-on capability to the built-in public key authentication mechanism of SSH using system call interposition. -
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SSHTOOLS J2SSH Maverick
The second generation SSH API from the original author of J2SSH
J2SSH Maverick is the successor to the original J2SSH API and includes a complete and stable implementation of an SSH2 client. Originally built from the ground up by the original author back in 2003, this product has, until now, only been available under a commercial license. With the development and pending release of a third generation SSH API, this legacy API has now been released under the GPLv3 and will continue to be maintained by the core author as a contribution to the open source community. -
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http-proxy-tunnel
Create nested tunnels through HTTP proxies
Http-proxy-tunnel creates TCP tunnels through http proxies that permit the CONNECT method. It differs from other proxy tunnelling programs in that it can tunnel through multiple proxies, and can use SSL tunnels. These abilities mean that in combination with a web server that can proxy (such as Apache) you can serve normal web pages from ports 80 and 443 and connect to the server (using ssh say) via those ports at the same time. All available documentation can be read online at http://http-proxy-tunnel.sourceforge.net/ -
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secpanel is a ssh gui for unix. Provides a GUI for handling SSH connection profiles. Supports handling of ssh-agents and the generation/distribution of public keys. Integrates SFTP using different file browsers and can use different xterminals.
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Anyterm jQuery Interface
Implementing jQuery to Anyterm
Anyterm is a unix terminal for web. It's original website is http://anyterm.org/ This project is for changing its user interface from plain javascript to jquery. -
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Backuso
Backup software for your data to local and remote SSH systems
Backuso – pronounce like the opera singer ‘Caruso’ – is a software for routine and automated backups of your computer to either a local storage or a remote storage on an SSH server, or both. A local storage is anything accessible in the directory structure of your computer. Most of the time this will be a (large) hard drive, mounted at a convenient location. A remote storage is anything which is accessed on your network via the ssh protocol. This could be a NAS (Network Attached Storage) in your local LAN, or a server share on the internet. Backuso is configured with a simple text file. You can start the backups manually or automatically, e.g. using crontab. Backuso is based on Python 3 and uses the software rsync as its core element. Hence it runs on systems where rsync is available (Linux, FreeBSD, Apple).
