This will open the Settings pane, and on the bottom left you'll see an option to Open JSON, click on it to open the settings.json file. Then click on the down arrow next to the Pwershell tab and then Settings. Open Windows Terminal (if not already open). Step 3: Setup Windows Terminal to connect in one click. Enter your password and you're done copying your public key into the remote computer.

In my case it looks something like this cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh 'mkdir -p ~/.ssh & chmod 700 ~/.ssh & cat > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'Īfter executing the above command it'll ask for the user password for the remote computer. cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh 'mkdir -p ~/.ssh & chmod 700 ~/.ssh & cat > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys' Usually if you're on a linux pc it is as simple as this command ssh-copy-id But ssh-copy-id is not available on Windows, hence, the following command. Step 2: Copy the public key into the remote system. This is an optional step, if multiple users access your computer then it is a nice thing to do but, if you are the only one accessing then there's no need. I'd suggest you go with the default option i.e. It'll ask, in which file (or where) to save the key. Open Command Prompt/Powershell or as I like it, Powershell in Windows Terminal. Step 1: Create a public/private rsa key pair. Open Windows Powershell or Command Prompt.Įverytime you want to start a new ssh session.Till now if you wanted to ssh into a remote computer you'd have to: (That can be easily done from the Windows Store) What is the default option? Prerequisite to this tutorial is that you need to have Windows Terminal installed on your Windows computer. Here in this article I'm going to explore connecting to a remote Linux server using SSH and private key using Windows Terminal. With its cusomization capabilities the possibilities are endless. Wiindows terminal is proving to be an awesome tool for terminal(CLI) lovers.

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