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Configure SSH connection on Windows for remote development on Linux

  1. Open Windows command prompt.
  2. Generate a separate SSH key in file id_rsa-remote-ssh. ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\id_rsa-remote-ssh
  3. Add the contents of the local id_rsa-remote-ssh.pub file generated in step 2 to the appropriate authorized_keys file(s) on the SSH host. SET REMOTEHOST=name-of-ssh-host SET PATHOFIDENTITYFILE=%USERPROFILE%\.ssh\id_rsa-remote-ssh.pub scp %PATHOFIDENTITYFILE% %REMOTEHOST%:~/tmp.pub ssh %REMOTEHOST% "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && chmod 700 ~/.ssh && cat ~/tmp.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && rm -f ~/tmp.pub"
  4. In VS Code, run Remote-SSH: Open Configuration File... in the Command Palette (F1), select an SSH config file, and add (or modify) a host entry as follows:

Host name-of-ssh-host
      User your-user-name-on-host
      HostName host-fqdn-or-ip-goes-here
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-remote-ssh

Example of config file:

Host my_machine
      User kbinias
      HostName 192.168.12.34
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-remote-ssh