Key Functions

This section provides descriptions on key functions of Xshell.

General

• Supports SSH1, SSH2, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL protocols
• Supports Windows 7/8/10, Server 2008/2012/2016
• Supports OpenSSH and ssh.com servers
• Supports having multi tabs in a single window
• Supports displaying multiple tab groups in a single window
• Multi-user setting
• Keep alive option
• SOCKS4/5, HTTP proxy connection
• Custom key mapping
• VB, Perl, Jscript scripting
• IPv6 support
• Kerberos(MIT Kerberos, Microsoft SSPI) authentication support
• Trace that traces SSH/Telnet events
• Notification through Windows notification function
• Integrated Log viewer(Log interpreter)
• Windows Notifications

Session Management

• The Session Manager provides a convenient way to manage and run multiple sessions
• Create and manage session files for both local and remote hosts
• Supports Sessions dialog box, address bar, local prompt, shortcut to session, and links bar to open sessions
• Provides a default session for quick connection
• Simultaneous connection with multiple sessions
• Address bar supports URL commands and allows connection to a remote host with or without a saved session
• Supports automatic login and login scripts
• Supports folder and tree view in the Sessions dialog box
• Batch update sessions
• Import and export sessions
• Authentication Profile that manages authentication information instead of scattered authentication information in session files
• Customized session icon feature that improves visibility of session files with protocol-specific or user defined icons
• RDP session creation and management

Security

• RSA/DSA/ECDSA/ED25519 Public key, Password and Keyboard interactive user authentication
• RSA/DSA/ECDSA/ED25519 New Key Wizard and import/export key
• Various SSH public key authentication: RSA, DSA, ECDSA, ED25519 key file, PKCS#11, and CAPI support
• User authentication using Xagent (SSH user authentication agent)
• Latest encryption algorithms including AES128/192/256, 3DES, BLOWFISH, CAST128, ARCFOUR, RIJNDAEL, and Chacha20-poly1305.
• Latest MAC algorithms including SHA1, SHA1-96, SHA2-25/512, MD5, MD5-96, RIPEMD160, and OpenSSH algorithms.
• zlib compression
• Host Keys dialog box
• User Keys dialog box
• Supports using master password to encrypt password

Terminal

• Unicode-based terminal buffer
• Tue color terminal
• VT100, VT220, VT320, XTERM, LINUX, SCOANSI and ANSI terminals
• Fixed terminal size option for standardized output
• Horizontal scroll bar while in fixed terminal size
• Multi-language output encoding (UTF-8)
• Compose Bar for sending strings to multiple sessions
• Compose Pane for sending multiple lines of strings to multiple sessions
• Send Key Input feature that allows multiple sessions to do the same thing at the same time
• Scroll buffer enabling up to 2,147,483,647 lines to be saved
• Character string search using regular expressions
• Supports multi-byte character strings at copy & paste
• Paste string editor that allows checking and editing when pasting multi-line strings
• Provides various selection methods through a combination of keyboard and mouse such as word, line and column selection and expansion of their ranges, etc.
• Designates delimiters of double-click word selection in the terminal window
• Triple click selects one line
• Bold font and ANSI color code
• Xterm terminal mouse
• Xterm 256-color mode
• Linux Meta key emulation
• Prints terminal screen
• Set line spacing and margins in the terminal window
• Search a user specified web browser for selected text
• Various bell options
• Highlight feature that tracks strings in the terminal and highlights them
• Trigger that tracks a string in the terminal and then performs a given action.
• Hex Viewer that allows you to immediately check the raw contents of the terminal

Tunneling

• TCP/IP and X11 forwarding
• Dynamic port forwarding using SOCKS4/5
• Tunneling pane for observing and managing active forwarding channels
• Instant tunneling to add/remove or modify tunneling to the current connected session

Appearance

• Quick Start page to increase accessibility to the recent sessions and for instance accesses
• Dockable UI for the main window
• Theme selection feature
• Convenient and powerful user interface
• Supports custom layout
• Color schemes edit/import/export feature
• Change cursor color and blinking
• Easily changeable fonts via the Font button
• Apply separate fonts for ASCII and non ASCII characters
• Variable-width fonts available in terminal
• Designate frequently used character strings as quick commands: Quick Commands Bar, Quick Commands Pane
• Quick Command Manager to manage and use all the quick commands at a glance
• Customizable Standard Buttons on toolbar
• Security–lock, session selection, and network up/down traffic information display in the status bar
• Full screen view (Alt+Enter)
• Transparency options

Local Command

• Local shell prompt for advanced users
• Local commands, including open, ssh, telnet, rlogin, sftp, and ftp
• Local Windows commands, such as ping, ipconfig, netstat, and nslookup
• Escape to the local prompt during connection

Interoperability

• Interoperable with Xmanager program for X11 forwarding
• Interoperable with Xagent program for agent authentication and forwarding
• Interoperable with Xftp program for file transfers
• File Manager pane and the File Manager tab of the Tunneling pane that allows you to view and upload/download files in the current path of the terminal
• Edits scroll buffer in notepad
• Sequentially selects Xshell window via the menu command

String Transfer and File Management

• Send and receives files via FTP/SFTP
• Send and receives files via X/Y/Z MODEM
• Send ASCII files
• Send Delay for preventing data loss
• To prevent errors when transmitting large amounts of text, various options are provided, such as pasting into the composition window or opening the paste dialog box.
• Auto save and support for various logging formats during session logging
• Page setting and print preview