OpenSSH Portable - Adherence to standards on Windows

[John Cooper]

Hi,

I have recently talked to people who are porting OpenSSH client, to use in Windows. They are downstream from this project, they don’t want to make to many changes to go away from what released upstream.

Now to get into the meat of the issue, currently OpenSSH is with the portable placing the .ssh folder in the wrong location. For Windows the client really needs, to be following the guidelines when handling porting. These guidelines lines are for it to be placed in a folder located in the %AppDataLocal% environment variable location. I recommend that the folder be called “OpenSSH”.

Could this please be taken into account with portable releases?

Kind Regards,

John Cooper

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