How to use SSH Key?

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Got this enabled today. As per the docs, it does not work with Putty or any other app that works with pageant. However, I have a working solution that enables this capability…

For those on windows:

  1. Open an Admin command prompt
  2. winget install winssh-pageant
  3. Disable and re-enable the Bitwarden SSH agent : Settings > Enable SSH Agent

All going well (may need a combination of stop/start/holding tongue right, then Putty, Filezilla et all will be able to connect to Bitwarden.

NOTE/Disclaimer: This is using a third party app to provide this. Code is available on github here: GitHub - ndbeals/winssh-pageant: Bridge to Windows OpenSSH agent from Pageant. This means the openssh agent has the keys and this proxies pageant requests to it..

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

Hopefully this will get baked into Bitwarden in a release in the short term.

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