<type>documentation</type>
<domain>proj</domain>
<id>ssh-win10-install</id>
<title>Enabling Windows 10 OpenSSH Client</title>
<date>$Date: 2010-05-14 11:53:19 -0400 (Fri, 14 May 2010) $</date>
<version>$Revision: 22093 $</version>
<product-version>6+</product-version>
<product>pro+</product>

Newer versions of Windows 10 offer OpenSSH as an optional feature.

To enable Windows 10 OpenSSH, open the Settings application and go to the ``Apps > Apps &
features`` page. Click on ``Manage optional features`` and use ``Add a feature`` to add
``OpenSSH Client``. This installs OpenSSH into ``\Windows\System32\OpenSSH`` on your
system drive. You may need to restart Wing before it finds it the installation, and you
may need to log out and back in again before you can use it from the command line.

Once OpenSSH is installed, you will need to enable ``ssh-agent`` separately if you plan to
use it. To do that, open a Command Prompt as Administrator by typing ``cmd`` into Windows'
search area and right clicking on the ``Command Prompt`` result to select ``Run as
Administrator``. Then type the following at the prompt::

  sc config ssh-agent start= demand

After this is done you can close the Command Prompt that is running as Administrator and
proceed configuring SSH as described in `Working with OpenSSH <ref:proj/ssh-setup-details-openssh>`__.

