

You don’t need to supply your username and password each time. When you use SSH keys to authenticate to the GitLab remote server, GitLab uses the SSH protocol to securely communicate with Git. In this case, the server you push to is GitLab. Then share or push your changes to a server. Git is a distributed version control system, which means you can work locally, Key enrollment failed: invalid format error Use SSH keys to communicate with GitLab.Overriding SSH settings on the GitLab server.Configure two-factor authentication (2FA).Use different accounts on a single GitLab instance.Use different keys for different repositories.Generate an SSH key pair for a FIDO/U2F hardware security key.Upgrade your RSA key pair to a more secure format.Configure SSH to point to a different directory.See if you have an existing SSH key pair.Try ssh to your host using Git's ssh.exe: c:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe If this works, then VS Code Remote-SSH should work.įinally, I added Pageant and start-ssh-pageant.cmd to my Windows 7 Startup so this persists across reboots.Is the SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable set correctly to something like /tmp/.ssh-pageant-bill? Open a command prompt: Enter set to view the list of Environment Variables.tmp/.ssh-pageant-bill) ( Environment Variable assignment screenshot) Variable value: /tmp/.ssh-pageant- username (e.g.Control Panel / System / Advanced Settings / Environment Variables.Create the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable.This takes care of the communication between Git ssh, which looks for ssh-agent, and Pageant. Start the ssh agent shim (C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\start-ssh-pageant.cmd).Start Pageant (C:\Program Files\PuTTY\pageant.exe) and Add key.What worked for me on Windows 7, VS Code 1.36.1 with (Remote Development 0.15.0, Remote-SSH 0.44.0) and Git for Windows 2.22: I had Git for Windows installed and in a Git Bash shell, I could ssh and pick up the Pageant keys and no password was needed.īut VS Code Remote-SSH, while using the Git ssh in C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe was using Windows 7 cmd.exe shell which didn't talk to Pageant. I ran into a similar issue trying to get MS VS Code Studio Remote-SSH working with Putty's Pageant.
