Setting up SSH on Windows

Every online tutorial for this seems to be way WAY too complicated for what is in fact a pretty basic process. This is targeted at people who (for example) need to set up a remote SSH session on a Linux server for development purposes). We assume you have a username, password and hostname for the server you want to log in it. install OpenSSH on your local Windows machine if it isn't already. You can find this under Settings, search for "Optional Features" Click the checkbox, and if it's not installed, install it. Fire up a command prompt. Create yourself an SSH key pair, by running ssh-keygen C:\Users\You> ssh-keygen Generating public/private ed<something> key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (C:\Users\You/.ssh/id_ed<something> ) : Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in C:\Users\You/.ssh/id_ed<something> Your public key has been saved in C:\Users\You/.ssh/id_<something> .pub The key fingerprint is: SHA256: