Please allow the Support for Using Windows Terminal's Ubuntu machine as default Bash Client :: Support Forum

jsharma
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Please allow the Support for Using Windows Terminal's Ubuntu machine as default Bash Client

2020-06-21 20:52

Please allow the Support for Using Windows Terminal's Ubuntu machine as default Bash Client or at-least GIT Bash client.

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: Please allow the Support for Using Windows Terminal's Ubuntu machine as default Bash Client

2020-06-23

I do not understand what you ask for. Can you please elaborate?

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jsharma

Re: Please allow the Support for Using Windows Terminal's Ubuntu machine as default Bash Client

2020-06-23 10:02

Windows have launched the WSL2 due to which now Windows support native Ubuntu Console. Also if you allow supporting the GIT BASH client instead of PUTTY which is very unproductive, then it will be great.

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kanlukasz
Joined:: 2019-02-05
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Re: Please allow the Support for Using Windows Terminal's Ubuntu machine as default Bash Client

2020-06-23 10:53

jsharma wrote:

allow supporting the GIT BASH client instead of PUTTY

This is very good idea

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Please allow the Support for Using Windows Terminal's Ubuntu machine as default Bash Client

2020-06-26

I know what WSL2 is.

But you didn't explain what do you ask for from WinSCP.

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jsharma
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Re: Please allow the Support for Using Windows Terminal's Ubuntu machine as default Bash Client

2020-06-26 12:13

I actually was requesting to allow adding the git-bash.exe path inside WinSCP using below Menu options:
Preferences > Integration > Applications

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Please allow the Support for Using Windows Terminal's Ubuntu machine as default Bash Client

2020-06-29

Have you seen this?
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/integration_putty#wsl

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jsharma

Re: Please allow the Support for Using Windows Terminal's Ubuntu machine as default Bash Client

2020-06-29 20:23

Wow, that was awesome. Thanks a lot.

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kizza42
Joined:: 2020-08-27
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2020-08-27 08:23

Just an additional to this, I spent the day trying to get WinSCP to call the new Windows Terminal via wt.exe but it seems unable to launch that process. I ended up having to use the following command to fool Winscp in to being able to launch Windows Terminal:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "wt.exe" ssh.exe !U@!@ -p !#  -t "cd !/ ; /bin/bash"

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martin◆ Site Admin
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2020-08-28

Indeed, due to the strange way the Windows Store app aliases are implemented, they are not recognized by WinSCP.
I've implemented a workaround for that:
https://winscp.net/tracker/1901
Though your syntax does not work for me. wt seems to misinterpret the semicolon. I had to escape it with a backslash:

wt.exe ssh.exe !U@!@ -p !#  -t "cd !/ \; /bin/bash"

I'm sending you an email with a development version of WinSCP to the address you have used to register on this forum.

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kizza42

2020-08-29 03:19

Ooh, thank you for the quick fix, I didn't get an email from you

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martin◆ Site Admin

2020-09-01

Sent again.

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kizza42
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2020-09-02 03:30

Had a play with the test version and it calls Wt.exe and passes the arguments as expected Thankyou! 👍

I had to change my command line to be like yours

wt.exe ssh.exe !U@!@ -p !#  -t "cd !/ \; /bin/bash"

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martin◆ Site Admin

2020-10-16

Documented:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/integration_putty#wt

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SoftCreatR Guest

SSH-Key?

2022-07-11 00:55

While the Terminal integration works fine so far, it doesn't work, if you are using a private key in another directory than ~/.ssh.

Is there a way to use the key that is defined in the extended connection settings?

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: SSH-Key?

2022-07-12

@SoftCreatR: What are "extended connection settings"?

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SoftCreatR Guest

2022-07-23 01:33

@martin: I meant "Advanced", sorry :P

Advanced Site Settings -> SSH -> Authentication -> Private key file

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martin◆ Site Admin
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2022-07-25

@SoftCreatR: WinSCP and OpenSSH use different key types. You cannot use WinSCP key for OpenSSH. It does not matter if the key is in ~/.ssh or not. I assume what you mean is it works, if the host works with default key in the default location (like ~/.ssh/id_rsa). If you want to use a different key, you would normally have to explicitly specify it using -i switch on the ssh commandline, right? In such case, edit ssh_config to configure a non-default key for the hosts that have their own keys.

Host example.com
  IdentityFile C:/path/key

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