I'm looking for a way to use the ssh_config files in Windows, and I know in Linux it's located at ~/.ssh/config.
Where is the Windows location and is there any difference in syntax or paths used inside the file?
2 Answers
You can create a config file at %UserProfile%\.ssh\config. I don't have a source for this, but it works for SSH connections in PowerShell and remote connections within Visual Studio Code.
I don't think OpenSSH config in Windows 10 differs from Linux in terms of syntax; I've copied and pasted configs from Windows 10 to WSL and to native Linux machines with no issues.
According to OpenSSH Server Configuration for Windows 10 1809 and Server 2019:
In Windows, sshd reads configuration data from
%programdata%\ssh\sshd_configby default
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My linked article is for Powershell. It also says that you may use a non-default config file by setting it in the registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH.– harrymcCommented Jul 1, 2020 at 14:45 -
1@harrymc OpenSSH has three default config files - user-specific (
%UserProfile%\.ssh\config) and system-wide (%ProgramData%\ssh\ssh_config) client configs and a system-wide (%ProgramData%\ssh\sshd_config) server config; the same is true for BSD/Linux, just at different locations (~/.ssh/config,/etc/ssh/ssh_config, and/etc/ssh/sshd_config). If the user-specific client config is present, it supersedes the system-wide client config.– JW0914Commented Jul 1, 2020 at 14:52
~\.ssh\config; Explorer:%UserProfile%\.ssh\config), whereas the system-wide clientssh_configwould be located at%ProgramData%\ssh\ssh_config, along with thesshd_configserver config. Syntax is the same in all files, however the option parameters for file paths and subsystems is different (examples).