Various Considerations

Following issues/limitations need to be considered while evaluating Win32 OpenSSH

• Elevation of Privilege over loopback on misconfigured machines.
• ssh-agent ignores '-c' and '-t' options of ssh-add. It persistently and permanently stores the user's private key.
• Text resources (config and key files) need to be either ASCII or UTF-8 (UTF-16 variants are not supported)
• On Windows 10, if you've enabled Developer Mode, you probably have another implementation of SSH installed on your machine. To figure out if this is the case, look for TCP port bindings on port 22 and these services: “SSH Server Broker” and “SSH Server Proxy”
  • netstat -anop TCP
  • If you do see 22 occupied, #610 has workarounds to deal with port conflict.