Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Connecting from Windows to Linux

If connecting from Windows, an SSH client must be installed. The following command uses the Chocolatey package manager (http://chocolatey.org) to install OpenSSH for Windows:

choco install openssh

Depending on the desired configuration, public key authentication may be enabled in the SSH daemon configuration file. A subsystem must be added to the file.

To enable public key authentication, set PubkeyAuthentication:

PubkeyAuthentication yes

An existing subsystem entry will likely exist toward the end of the file; this new entry can be added beneath the existing entry:

Subsystem       powershell    /opt/microsoft/powershell/6/pwsh -sshs -NoLogo -NoProfile

The sshd service should be restarted after changing the configuration ...