OpenSSH Server and Client

Install feature

Open Settings, select System, then select Optional Features.
Select Add a feature if not installed:
- Find OpenSSH Client, then select Install
- Find OpenSSH Server, then select Install

Add Public key authentication

Setting up OpenSSH for Windows using public key authentication

Update permission in $env:USERPROFILE\.ssh\authorized_keys file.
1. Properties > Security > Advanced > Disable inheritance > Save.
2. Create Full Access permission for SYSTEM and Administrator User.
Update config in C:\ProgramData\ssh\sshd_config file.
1. Uncomment PubkeyAuthentication yes
2. Comment following segment
```
Match Group administrators
AuthorizedKeysFile __PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/administrators_authorized_keys
```
Restart OpenSSH Server service.
1. Start Menu > Run > services.msc
2. Restart OpenSSH Server.
3. Change Startup type to Automatic.

Create Connection

Username

$env:USERNAME

Server name

ipconfig | select-string  ('(\s)+IPv4.+\s(?<IP>(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}))(\s)*') -AllMatches | %{ $_.Matches } | % { $_.Groups["IP"]} | %{ $_.Value }

Connect VM

ssh user@host

SCP from windows

scp -T 'user@host:"C:\path to file\file.txt"' ./