I am trying to configure VSCode on my machine (Win10) to SSH to my remote servers using keys already loaded in Pageant running on the machine.
One way I found is to use "wsl-ssh-pageant", however I couldn't figure how to install on my machine even though I have WSL (Ubuntu)enabled on my machine.
Can someone help in configuring VSCode with pageant? Explain how to install "wsl-ssh-pageant".
Thanks
If Pageant has already loaded keys, then you can make a use of it by another application through the Plink (PuTTY Link) command-line interface.
If you want to work with e.g. a Git repository on remote server with credentials (keys), I have found a working solution: https://www.cgranade.com/blog/2016/06/06/ssh-keys-in-vscode.html (with already loaded keys to Pageant, the only missing part is last step 4).
You need to set a new environment variable in your Win10. For me it worked when I added a "system variable" not a "user variable".
The name of the variable is: "GIT_SSH"
The value is a full path to PuTTY\plink.exe, e.g: "C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe"
If you have VS Code opened already, close it and reopen again to make sure it sees the new environment variable.
Now in my case, VSCode additionally needed what was described here in the solution: VS Code / Bitbucket / SSH - Permission denied (publickey)
