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[H.G.Muller]

I installed freeSSHd as an ssh server on a windows machine, with the aim to run a remote engine there. Indeed I can run the engine from the command line, from another Windows machine using plink, but the problem is that apart from the normal engine output I get the commands I send it echoed back to me. A GUI (in particular Polyglot) does not like that at all, so I cannot play the engine automatically.

I also tried to connect from a Linux machine using genuine ssh. Then I also get the commands echoed to me, (I get to see every command twice, from the command line), but the engine doesn't react to them at all. I do see the welcome message of the engine, though, so I know that I am connected and that the engine is running. This is presumably a CR/LF problem. But it suggests the echo originates from the server, and not from the client.

Is it normal that an ssh server would echo everything you send it? Or is freeSSHd just a crappy implementation?