Reusing a key generated in PuTTYGen
Reusing a key generated in PuTTYGen If you used PuTTYGen to set up SSH public key authentication for the host you are connecting to, you need to convert your private key so that other SSH clients can use it. To do this: Open PuTTYGen locally and load the private key you want to convert. Select Conversions > Export OpenSSH key from the application menu. Save the converted key to a local location under the .ssh directory in your user profile folder (for example C:\Users\youruser\.ssh ). Validate that this new local file is owned by you and no other user has permissions to access it. In VS Code, run Remote-SSH: Open Configuration File... in the Command Palette ( F1 ), select the SSH config file you wish to change, and add (or modify) a host entry in the config file as follows to point to the file: Host name-of-ssh-host-here User your-user-name-on-host HostName host-fqdn-or-ip-goes-here IdentityFile ~/.ssh/exported-keyfile-from-putty Link: https://code....