Never Type Your Password Again: Automatic SSH Logins in Windows Terminal

Requirement

Procedures

1. Generate key

   1. Execute ssh-keygen and generate the file id_rsa

      1C:\Users\dennys>ssh-keygen
      2Generating public/private rsa key pair.
      3Enter file in which to save the key (C:\Users\dennys/.ssh/id_rsa):
      

   2. The content of id_rsa is like the following.

      1ssh-rsa AAAAB******************== dennys@mypc123
      

2. Put the key on Linux

   1. Open the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and paste the content of id_rsa into it.

3. Test automatically login

   1. Execute ssh name@host, you don't need to input password any more.

4. Configuratino Windows Terminal

   1. Open settings.json of Windows Terminal.

      1. Click Windows Terminal -> Settings -> Open JSON file

      2. Add a new profile in settings.json

          1    "profiles":
          2    {
          3        "defaults": {},
          4        "list":
          5        [
          6            {
          7                "name": "ssh linux100",
          8                "commandline": "ssh dennys@192.168.1.100",
          9                "tabTitle": "This is a tab title",
         10                "hidden": false
         11            },
         12        ]
         13    }
         

      3. Test the new profile, when you click it, Windows Terminal should open a new tab and login automatically.