Mosh hamedani install#
Install the Windows Subsystem for Linuxįirst you have to install the Windows Subsytem for Linux (WSL) which you can do right from the Windows Settings. Unfortunately, this can take a bit of setup. Fortunately, Windows now *is* a Linux machine for all practical purposes which means you can run the Linux version of mosh. I tried this and it’s fairly miserable compared to a true mosh client on a Linux machine. The recommended way to install mosh on Windows is simply to install the mosh extension for Chrome. It’s long, but depending on your level of knowledge and the state of your system, you might be able to skip most of it (see contents above).
Mosh hamedani full#
I want the full power of a true bash-native mosh client and this guide will get you there from installation to setup. That is probably the easiest way as the excessive length of this guide shows, but I find that client limited and frustrating. In other words, why go to all this trouble when the official mosh documentation says that the best way to use mosh on Windows is to use the Chrome mosh client. This means that when you make a typo in a command, you can correct it at roughly the speed you can on a low-latency connection or even a local terminal. It can almost always tell whether or not you are just typing a command and it should wait for an before talking to the server or if you are madly smashing the CTRL-C key or the up arrow desperately trying to revert whatever damage you did with the last command. Dropped cell signal? Who cares?Įven better, on a high-latency connection, mosh has more brains than your average SSH client. Mosh on the other hand, will hold your beer for you while your connection drops, making sure that when it comes back, your session is still active and you’re still in the same place with your command history and everything. But SSH clients can’t do otherwise because they don’t know whether they should be waiting for an enter command or send the keystroke right away Life in a mosh client If you make a typo and have to backspace, may God have mercy on you. Add in switching and routing to and from the ground station and all that and you have to wait an entire second for the key to echo back. That takes 700ms just in travel time at the speed of light. When I type a letter, that poor lonely keystroke has to travel a minimum of 88,000 miles through the vast emptiness of space before it echos back on your screen. On a satellite connection, it’s arguably even worse. In a normal SSH client, if I drop my cell connection, I get kicked out of my session and have to log back in, completely forgetting where I was. Why install mosh on Windows 10? Life in a normal SSH client
Mosh hamedani password#
One last thing: disabling password authentication.Setting up public/private key authentication.Command line install and advanced config.Install Linux (you want this anyway, right?).
Mosh hamedani windows 10#
Why install mosh in Windows 10 WSL instead of just using the Chrome extension?.If you already have SSH access from WSL and your sysadmin set up mosh on the remote server, then all you care about is the actual mosh installation, which takes two minutes. Much of this guide to setting up mosh on Windows 10 WSL is really about setting up the Windows Subsystem for Linux, adding SSH public/private key authentication on Windows 10, setting up your firewall on the remote server. So if you are often working on a poor mobile connection or a high-latency satellite connection, mosh is for you. Mosh (mobile shell) is a shell client optimized for poor or intermittent internet connections.
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