OpenSSH Portable - Adherence to standards on Windows

Darren Tucker dtucker at dtucker.net
Sun Apr 20 08:17:00 AEST 2025


On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 02:00, John Cooper via openssh-unix-dev <
openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org> wrote:

> [...] 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?
>

The OpenSSH code provided by the OpenSSH team does not support being built
on Windows, except via Cygwin.   If you're referring to the Microsoft
fork[0] then you need to direct your request to them.

[0] https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable

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