How to

Quick SSH to remote server from Windows

Prerequisites

• Windows host
• Ubuntu\Linux remote
• Git Bash for Windows

Generate SSH keys

Open Git Bash and run

• ssh-keygen -t rsa

Press enter through all the questions.
This will create a public and a private key in C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\ .ssh called id_rsa and id_rsa.pub

Add SSH public key to the server

Log in to your server
Make sure that the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file exists.
If not create it.

• mkdir ~/.ssh

• touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

  Run the command

  Switch to Git Bash
  Replace the USERNAME and IP with your server credentials.
  Enter the password if promted.

  • cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh USERNAME@IP "cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

Create a bash alias for your SSH connection

Make sure that the ~/.bashrc file exists on your Windows machine.
If not create it.

• touch ~/.bashrc

  Run the command

  Replace YOUR_ALIAS with your alias of choice
  Replace the USERNAME and IP with your server credentials.

  • echo "alias YOUR_ALIAS='ssh USERNAME@IP -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa'" >> ~/.bashrc
  • source ~/.bashrc

Connect

Open Git Bash and type YOUR_ALIAS from above
You should now be connected