Now scroll to “OpenSSH Authentication Agent”.ĭouble-click the entry. Open the start menu and search for “Services”. Next we need to enable the SSH Authentication Agent which holds the SSH keys and makes them available to the SSH client. After the installation you can close the settings window. Then scroll to “OpenSSH Client” (NOT OpenSSH Server) and tick the box. Otherwise scroll to the top of the settings page and click “View features” in the “Add optional feature” item.

If it shows an “Uninstall” button, then OpenSSH is already installed and you can skip to the next section.

Scroll to “OpenSSH Client” and click on the item.

Go to Settings -> Apps -> Optional Features.In my case it was already installed on my computer, but here is how to check for that: Making sure that the OpenSSH client is installed

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to do this.Īdditionally, I’ll also show how to configure your newly created SSH key in GitHub, so that youĬan use it to push to and pull from git repositories. On Windows 10 and Windows 11 it’s also possible to set up SSH and generate an SSH key without any external tools. SSH keys can also be used with Git servers like GitHub to authenticate yourself when you are pushing to or pulling from a repository. They are harder to break than passwords of typical length and also save you from typing your password every time you log into your server. In the Linux world it is pretty common to use SSH keys to log into servers.

Windows 10 ssh generate key