Installing sshi on Windows

ssh-inscribe client can be used on Windows workstation too.

Installation instructions

1. Download the sshi-windows-x86_64.exe from Releases

2. Execute following commands in Powershell. Assuming the downloaded file is in the current directory.

New-Item -Path 'C:\Program Files\ssh-inscribe\' -ItemType Directory
Copy-Item sshi-windows-x86_64.exe -Destination 'C:\Program Files\ssh-inscribe\sshi.exe'
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $env:Path + ";C:\Program Files\ssh-inscribe", [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine)

1. You might also want to set sshi server url as persistent env variable

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("SSH_INSCRIBE_URL", "https://server.name:8540", [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine)

1. Relaunch Powershell

Installing OpenSSH client for Windows

OpenSSH ssh-agent is required for to be able to store the generated certificate for subsequent use. Enabling ssh-server is not required.

Windows 10:

Please refer to this article: Using the OpenSSH Beta in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709

Previous versions:

1. Download Microsoft's OpenSSH release: Win32-OpenSSH
2. Unpack the zip
3. Copy the OpenSSH-Win64 folder to C:\Program Files
4. Add C:\Program Files to the path
5. Execute install-sshd.ps1
6. Set service 'ssh-agent' to Automatic and start the service