{"id":8524,"date":"2024-11-12T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:36","slug":"enable-openssh-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2024\/enable-openssh-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable OpenSSH on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Enable OpenSSH on Windows 10\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>OpenSSH is now included with Windows 10 <em>(as of October 2018)<\/em>. Depending on your version of Windows, the feature may or may not be installed by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"step-1-check-if-ssh-is-enabled\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1: Check if SSH is enabled<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>To check if SSH is enabled on your system, open a command prompt and end the command <code>ssh<\/code>. If it provides you with help for using SSH, it is already enabled! You should be able to follow the Linux instructions using the <code>ssh-keygen<\/code> command from the command prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"step-2-enable-the-ssh-client\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2: Enable the SSH client<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>SSH is considered an optional feature of Windows and may not be installed by default. To enable it, follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open your settings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to <em>Apps > Apps and Features > Manage Optional Features<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check the list to see if &#8220;OpenSSH Client&#8221; is already enabled<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you do not see &#8220;OpenSSH Client&#8221;, click <em>Add a Feature<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find OpenSSH Client in the list of features and click <em>Install<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You should now see OpenSSH Client in your list of features and be able to run the <code>ssh-keygen<\/code> command similar to the Linux instructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> If you do not see OpenSSH Client as an available optional feature, your version of Windows 10 may not support it. Instead of OpenSSH, you can use PuTTYgen to generate your <strong>.ppk<\/strong> file and then connect using PuTTY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"putty-alternative\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">PuTTY Alternative<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditionally on Windows, people have used a tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.putty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PuTTY<\/a> to ssh to a remote system. <strong>PuTTYgen<\/strong> is an included tool that provides a graphical interface for generating PuTTY <strong>ppk<\/strong> files (public\/private keys). This is a file that contains both private and public keys, readable by PuTTY. If you would like to use PuTTY, you can find more information on generating keys on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.putty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PuTTY website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenSSH is now included with Windows 10 (as of October 2018). Depending on your version of Windows, the feature may or may not be installed by default. Step 1: Check if SSH is enabled To check if SSH is enabled on your system, open a command prompt and end the command ssh. If it provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[61,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-tech-support","category-technicalsupport"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10544,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions\/10544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}