Vagrant: Ship ssh.exe by default in the Windows installer

Created on 27 Aug 2014 · 5Comments · Source: hashicorp/vagrant

I'm attempting to put together a guide for having Vagrant installed by default in some of the computer class rooms in our university so it's easier for students to get a course-specific environment up and running quickly. After testing it out on my own I realized that vagrant ssh doesn't work out of the box on Windows (like it does on all other platforms). The accepted solution seems to be to install Git or any other software that happens to ship ssh.exe then adjust the PATH variable. This is not exactly ideal, especially if I'm going to convince the adminstrators to deploy this.

I propose the ssh.exe is included in the MSI installer for Windows and put in the same path as Vagrant.exe so that the existing PATH amendment the installer does will be enough. The required binary is just 250 KB and I assume it's statically linked so it works standalone.

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Jalle19

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Or atleast provide a link to a proper ssh.exe somewhere. 5 min vagrant install, 40 min working out how to ssh into the box. Sort of kills the whole idea. Putty is not trivial, since you have to do this silly key conversion everytime. Bitvise doesn't even like the key at all. My version of git only has a ssh lib not ssh.exe. Googling "ssh.exe" will give you so much dodgy stuff you are just asking for trouble.

batkuip on 21 Aug 2015

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This has been asked before and we haven't been able to do this due to licensing reasons. It seems possible but until a lawyer gives the go-ahead on this, we're not gong to do this.

mitchellh on 27 Aug 2014

Well, everyone else seems to be able to do it, as far as I know you're free to ship any binary you want as long as you point to the source code somewhere.

Jalle19 on 27 Aug 2014

batkuip on 21 Aug 2015

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Install git for windows and you'll get ssh installed and configured from a reputable source.
( added to your path, put in the right windows approved folder, etc... )

derak-kilgo on 11 Sep 2018

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