Test Remote-SSH: Specify installation path on remote

[tanhakabir]

Refs: #472

• macOS @DonJayamanne
• linux @lramos15
• windows @karrtikr

Complexity: 4

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We want to make sure

Prerequisites:

1. Use the Remote-SSH Nightly extension
2. SSH into your own machine: Windows, macOS, and Linux to get one set up locally.

Steps:

1. Connect to your VM. Observe the file directory of the remote to see .vscode-server saved on the home directory.
2. Close you connection
3. Set remote.SSH.serverInstallPath setting for your host with an absolute path for the server to be installed instead.
4. Connect to same host again. Observe that .vscode-server was saved in your specified location.

[karrtikr]

SSH into your own machine: Windows

I'm having trouble doing this, I followed the instructions mentioned in the link, but I'm not quite sure what servername and user name to use in this step: ssh username@servername.

I tried using combinations of username: northamerica\karraj, northamerica\karraj@microsoft.com (which is what whoami /user returns), with servername as the IP address for my Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi, and also tried localhost, but it does not seem to be working. Can you please elaborate here?

Update: I get Connection reset by ::1 port 22 error when trying out northamerica\karraj or northamerica\karraj@microsoft.com with localhost, in other cases it asks for the password.

Might be related to PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH#1027.

[tanhakabir]

@karrtikr could you try these instructions?

Connect to localhost on your own Windows machine. You'll need to set up and start OpenSSH services, such as the OpenSSH SSH Server service and the OpenSSH Authentication Agent service.

[karrtikr]

That's what I did, I'm stuck at this step mentioned in the doc: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse#connect-to-openssh-server

[tanhakabir]

Oh try adding to your config an entry like this and then connecting to localhost with ssh localhost

Host localhost
    Hostname localhost

[karrtikr]

I am still getting this error:

[tanhakabir]

Hmm looking at these 2 sources can you check where your OpenSSH is installed?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65921478/connection-reset-by-1-port-22-windows-10-powershell-cmd-openssh
PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH#1249 (comment)