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OpenSSH On Windows: The Ultimate Guide for 2023



The important thing to note here is that after "machine-ip" ( : ) is the top level directory of the machine. The path-to-the directory should use the syntax of the machine you are connecting to i.e. for Linux the directory separator is (/) for Windows it's (). Also, on Linux () is shorthand for the login users home directory. Connecting to windows you have to give the full path. And, on Linux when accessing Windows you have to quote (") the username and path because of the backslashes.




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I hope this guide is helpful to both Windows and Linux users who want better interoperability. I also hope this is encouraging for user who may have never used ssh. I think it's great how easy it is getting to be to work productively in a mixes OS environment. Microsoft, much to their credit, keeps making Windows more useful for mixed environments. I'm looking forward to the terminal application they will have out soon and to the release of WSL2. With those 2 application in place windows will be nicely interoperable and will be much improved as a solid developers system.


Any idea why this is happening, and if there's a workaround that doesn't involve using a different ssh client or environment? I understand I can just use a "proper" terminal emulator like PuTTYm, but my question is whether or not there's a known fix for this particular scenario.


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Check sudo service sshd status on both the hosts. If stopped, start the sshd service. If you get an "error sshd.service not found", install openssh-server -> sudo apt install -y openssh-server and restart the sshd.service


You must install openssh-server on Linux before this will work. Get the internal IP address of Ubuntu and use that IP to setup port forwarding on port 22 (SSH) section of your router. Although if you don't intend to SSH from outside your network, this is not required.


To make this further confusing, native Windows APIs recognizes '\' as the directory separator, in addition to '/'. Simiarly, Cygwin-emulated POSIX APIs accept Windows paths, in addition to the Unix paths. This helpful "smart" behaviour sometimes makes it difficult for users to understand where the path translation is really happening.


$ ssh -v -t bitbucket.orgOpenSSH_8.6p1, LibreSSL 3.3.6debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/dlaser/.ssh/configdebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_configdebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/* matched no filesdebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 54: Applying options for *debug1: Authenticator provider $SSH_SK_PROVIDER did not resolve; disablingdebug1: Connecting to bitbucket.org port 22.debug1: Connection established.debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_rsa type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_dsa type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk-cert type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ed25519 type 3debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk-cert type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_xmss type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.6debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version conker_74f550b922 f6f746d1987bdebug1: compat_banner: no match: conker_74f550b922 f6f746d1987bdebug1: Authenticating to bitbucket.org:22 as 'dlaser'debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /Users/dlaser/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directorydebug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directorydebug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directorydebug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sentdebug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT receiveddebug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256@libssh.orgdebug1: kex: host key algorithm: rsa-sha2-512debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: compression: nonedebug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: compression: nonedebug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLYdebug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY receiveddebug1: Server host key: ssh-rsa SHA256:zzXQOXSRBEiUtuE8AikJYKwbHaxvSc0ojez9YXaGp1Adebug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /Users/dlaser/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directorydebug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directorydebug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directorydebug1: Host 'bitbucket.org' is known and matches the RSA host key.debug1: Found key in /Users/dlaser/.ssh/known_hosts:288debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocksdebug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sentdebug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYSdebug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS receiveddebug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocksdebug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_rsadebug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_dsadebug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ecdsadebug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ecdsa_skdebug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ed25519 ED25519 SHA256:1ULdLheARnciJmwL80PAJ2Ao3dvfiTMS5E2vyEHcvGEdebug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ed25519_skdebug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_xmssdebug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO receiveddebug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT receiveddebug1: Authentications that can continue: publickeydebug1: Next authentication method: publickeydebug1: Trying private key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_rsadebug1: Trying private key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_dsadebug1: Trying private key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ecdsadebug1: Trying private key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ecdsa_skdebug1: Offering public key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ed25519 ED25519 SHA256:1ULdLheARnciJmwL80PAJ2Ao3dvfiTMS5E2vyEHcvGEdebug1: Server accepts key: /Users/dlaser/.ssh/id_ed25519 ED25519 SHA256:1ULdLheARnciJmwL80PAJ2Ao3dvfiTMS5E2vyEHcvGEdebug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).Authenticated to bitbucket.org ([18.205.93.1]:22).debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]debug1: Entering interactive session.debug1: pledge: filesystem fulldebug1: Sending environment.debug1: channel 0: setting env LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"debug1: channel 0: setting env LC_TERMINAL_VERSION = "3.5.0beta7"debug1: channel 0: setting env LC_TERMINAL = "iTerm2"PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 2ff7e9595c


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