OpenSSH-Win64 support?

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We have a handful of Windows 2019 nodes running OpenSSH-Win64 … I’ve been unable to get Ansible ( 2.9.5 ) to be able to connect to these Windows nodes, despite the fact that I’m able to ssh from the Ansible control node (CentOS8.1) to the Windows 2019 nodes via:

ssh -i /path/to/private/key myUser@my.nodes.ip.address

the SSH command connects without issue (and correctly doesn’t prompt me for a PW).

All of the documentation I’ve read is showing that Ansible supports OpenSSH-Win32 … is OpenSSH-Win64 supported?

Thanks in advance.

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Depends on what you mean by support.

Does it work? yes

Is it supported by Red Hat? no

Will there be bugs? probably

Will we fix the bugs? eventually, the biggest showstoppers are now gone it’s just the little things we don’t know off.

Read through https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_faq.html#can-i-connect-to-windows-hosts-over-ssh for more info.

Thanks

Jordan

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And just an FYI, OpenSSH-Win32 and OpenSSH-Win64 are the same thing, one is just a binary for 32-bit installs and the other for 64-bit installed. The overarching project is known as ‘Win32-OpenSSH’ though https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH.

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Noted, I’ll keep at it (keep getting connections refused errors, not sure why, I’ll post a new topic if need be.). Thanks for the speedy reply, glad to know that this should work at least …

Wash your hands :slight_smile:

-Noob