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💾 ►►► DOWNLOAD FILE 🔥🔥🔥 In this article Applies to Windows Server , Windows Server , Windows 10 build and later Most authentication in Windows environments is done with a username-password pair, which works well for systems that share a common domain. When working across domains, such as between on-premises and cloud-hosted systems, it becomes vulnerable to brute force intrusions. OpenSSH includes tools to help support key based authentication, specifically: ssh-keygen for generating secure keys ssh-agent and ssh-add for securely storing private keys scp and sftp to securely copy public key files during initial use of a server This document provides an overview of how to use these tools on Windows to begin using key-based authentication with SSH. About key pairs Key pairs refer to the public and private key files that are used by certain authentication protocols. SSH public key authentication uses asymmetric cryptographic algorithms to generate two key files — one "private" and the other "public". The private key files are the equivalent of a password, and should stay protected under all circumstances. If someone acquires your private key, they can sign in as you to any SSH server you have access to. The public key is what is placed on the SSH server, and may be shared without compromising the private key. Key based authentication enables the SSH server and client to compare the public key for a user name provided against the private key. If the server-side public key can't be validated against the client-side private key, authentication fails. Multi-factor authentication may be implemented with key pairs by entering a passphrase when the key pair is generated see user key generation below. The user will be prompted for the passphrase during authentication. The passphrase is used along with the presence of the private key on the SSH client to authenticate the user. Important A remote session opened via key based authentication does not have associated user credentials and hence is not capable of outbound authentication as the user, this is by design. Host key generation Public keys have specific ACL requirements that, on Windows, equate to only allowing access to administrators and System. On first use of sshd, the key pair for the host will be automatically generated. By default the sshd service is set to start manually. If no algorithm is specified, RSA is used. A strong algorithm and key length should be used, such as Ed in this example. At this point, you'll be prompted to use a passphrase to encrypt your private key files. The passphrase can be empty but it's not recommended. The passphrase works with the key file to provide two-factor authentication. For this example, we're leaving the passphrase empty. Use ssh-agent to securely store the private keys within a Windows security context, associated with your Windows account. To start the ssh-agent service each time your computer is rebooted, and use ssh-add to store the private key run the following commands from an elevated PowerShell prompt on your server: By default the ssh-agent service is disabled. Configure it to start automatically. Make sure you're running as an Administrator. Important It is strongly recommended that you back up your private key to a secure location, then delete it from the local system, after adding it to ssh-agent. The private key cannot be retrieved from the agent providing a strong algorithm has been used, such as Ed in this example. If you lose access to the private key, you will have to create a new key pair and update the public key on all systems you interact with. The name and location of the file depends on whether the user account is a member of the local administrators group or a standard user account. The following sections cover both standard and administrative users. You can copy your public key using the OpenSSH scp secure file-transfer utility, or using a PowerShell to write the key to the file. The example below copies the public key to the server where "username" is replaced by your username. You'll need to use the password for the user account for the server initially. The ACL on this file needs to be configured to only allow access to administrators and System. The example below copies the public key to the server and configures the ACL where "username" is replaced by your user name. This only applies to administrator accounts and must be user instead of the per user file within the user's profile location. Once the example PowerShell commands have been run, the user can connect to the sshd host from any client that has the private key.