Remoting on Linux

Microsoft provides instructions for installing PowerShell on Linux; these should be followed before attempting to configure remoting: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-linux.

Once installed, it is possible to make PowerShell the default shell. This is optional and does not affect remoting. First, check that PowerShell is listed in the shells file:

Get-Content /etc/shells   # Use cat or less in Bash

The native chsh (change shell) command can be used to change the default shell for the current user, as shown in the following example:

chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh

To configure remoting using WSMan, the OMI and PSRP packages must be installed. The following example uses yum since the operating system in use is CentOS 7:

yum install omi.x86_64 omi-psrp-server.x86_64

By default, CentOS has a firewall configured. The network interface in use, in this case, eth0, must be added to an appropriate zone,...