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One-time sshd on Windows/MSYS2

Blog 2020/5/1

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One-time sshd on Windows/MSYS2

Need to ssh into your Windows machine? Open up an MSYS2 terminal and run:

$ ssh-keygen -A
$ /usr/bin/sshd -D

This runs sshd in the foreground. Press Control-C when finished.

Make sure you answer any Windows Firewall prompts.

Check your IP address with ipconfig.

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