SSH Agent for Visual Studio Code on Windows 10

ssh-agent-windows10.md

Using ssh-agent with Visual Studio Code on Windows 10

Enable the ssh-agent service

To enable SSH Agent automatically on Windows, start PowerShell as an Administrator and run the following commands:

# Make sure you're running as an Administrator
Set-Service ssh-agent -StartupType Automatic
Start-Service ssh-agent
Get-Service ssh-agent

Adding ssh keys

Run these commands in a terminal window within Visual Studio Code.

Show keys managed by the ssh-agent

ssh-add -l

Add a ssh key

ssh-add

Source article

For git, add a system environment variable or use a temporary setting in a PowerShell terminal of VSCode.

$env:GIT_SSH="C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe"

If you add the line $env:GIT_SSH="C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe" to your Powershell profile the environment variable will always be used.

notepad $profile