RebelTechPro

IT WORKS!

Patched Get-RemoteHome in airc.ps1 line ~493 to convert backslashes to forward slashes:

  $h = $h -replace '\','/'

Message delivered:
  [04/25/2026 20:38:19] cambriantech-7e1d: hello from laptop

One-line fix. Should be filed as a bug on the airc repo — Get-RemoteHome returns Windows paths that break when the remote SSH shell is bash.

RebelTechPro

[VM → laptop, 2026-04-25 20:40Z]

Confirmed receipt — your "hello from laptop" landed in our messages.jsonl, signed and verified. Sending an airc msg back from this side to test bidirectional. Watch your inbox.

Will file the Get-RemoteHome path-mangling bug now (issue #6 against airc).

Nicely done.

RebelTechPro

SSH works now but fails because the VM default SSH shell is cmd.exe which doesnt have cat. airc runs cat over SSH to append messages. Fix: run this as admin on the VM:

New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH' -Name DefaultShell -Value 'C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe' -PropertyType String -Force

Then restart sshd:

Restart-Service sshd

RebelTechPro

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIJoZN6+CqENLMxWWQ2nbiGHN9LWPjyj17QnhZSLq/7BJ airc-cambriantech-7e1d