Windows support

[radix]

I'd love to be able to use Kryptonite, but I use Windows on my Desktop machine, and use native Windows tools.

I saw that there are people working to get kr working on Windows Subsystem for Linux (#54, #71), but it's not clear if that will work with my native Windows tools. For example, I'd love it if when I run git in a PowerShell or from vscode/atom/whatever IDE, if it could connect to the kr ssh agent for authentication.

[kcking]

This is a definite goal for us, perhaps in the next few weeks. In the meantime we should have WSL working tonight, but I realize that won't help you with Atom/vscode/etc.

Do you currently use puTTY on windows?

[alien2003]

Babun?

[radix]

@kcking I don't use puTTY. Most of my ssh usage is via SourceTree, or git directly from PowerShell, but also occasionally OpenSSH directly from PowerShell.

[kcking]

Ok great, I'll look into integrations for these

[clarkd]

Would be great to get this - We currently use Putty/Pageant on Windows.

[kbzowski]

Putty/Pageant +1

[steveklabnik]

Another Putty user here.

[orclev]

One vote for plain git and git bash here. Pretty sure that version is based in mingw.

[xIGBClutchIx]

Any updates on this support? @kcking

[kcking]

A contributor is working on this behind the scenes! A bare-bones pageant replacement may be available in the next couple of weeks -- stay tuned! 😄

[sebgrohn]

Any update on this issue? :) I, too, would love to use this on Windows!

[kcking]

We are now working on the next teams product, and as a result have pushed support for windows to next year. Please stay subscribed to this issue for any updates regarding windows.

[tiernano]

now with Microsoft including OpenSSH in Windows 10 (1709), would love to see this working!

[kcking]

Exciting! I just tried out the ssh client and unfortunately it currently lacks support for RSA host keys as well as ProxyCommand (which has been scoped out of their initial release). Kryptonite uses ProxyCommand to verify the signature of the host you are connecting to. I'll be following this issue https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/355 to see when ProxyCommand support is added, but we'll also be considering our previous alternatives if this takes too long.

[themegabyte]

+1 for Putty please

[clarkd]

@kcking It looks like ProxyCommand is now supported (if I've followed PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH#355 correctly). Are we any closer to a Windows version?

Edit: Just noticed it was only released 8 hours ago, so I might be a little premature! 😨

[kcking]

Once ProxyCommand is fully released and OpenSSH is out of beta on Windows we'll be much closer, my rough estimate now is 2-3 months.

[awonglk]

Another Putty user.. but open to using OpenSSH if that is closer to being available. Great potential. My initial reaction when Kryptonite was, "Wow.. great product!".. and then soon, "oh.. doesn't work on Windows" :(

[themegabyte]

hey guys, any follow-up on this? Will we able to have kryptonite support on windows in the foreseeable future? Thank you very much

[Arm1stice]

I can confirm that you can use kr if you install Windows Subsystem for Linux, however I’m not sure how close we are to a more “native” solution.

[kcking]

WSL is currently the only supported method, but I am close to having a full build working on Windows. That being said I unfortunately still don't have a solid timeline for PuTTY/git bash/openssh integration

[rcdailey]

I'm going to ask the obvious question, is it really that hard to get this working for mingw64? I'm fine running this through Git Bash on Windows.

[itsbhanusharma]

Is support for windows available now Without WSL?

[jasperweiss]

@itsbhanusharma

Is support for windows available now Without WSL?

Yes that’s already supported

[JaseHadd]

@itsbhanusharma

Is support for windows available now Without WSL?

Yes that’s already supported

Is it? README.md still doesn’t mention Windows and no commits since last update (in August) mention Windows either

[jasperweiss]

@itsbhanusharma

Is support for windows available now Without WSL?

Yes that’s already supported

Is it? README.md still doesn’t mention Windows and no commits since last update (in August) mention Windows either

Oops, I misread that. No not without WSL

[ReK42]

+1 for a pageant stand-in, as I use putty as part of mRemoteNG in most of my workflows.

[ghost]

Once ProxyCommand is fully released and OpenSSH is out of beta on Windows we'll be much closer, my rough estimate now is 2-3 months.

Any news on this?

Windows 10 has openssh client support and it's possible to have fully compatible client using scoop. I am trying to achieve a full build on Windows command line using cmder. I even thought about using an ad-hoc Docker container to run git commands with kr but docker build does not support tty so it's impossible to pair at build stage

[hosh]

Any chance for a build for msys2?

[mwmahlberg]

The total silence on this issue, especially since Windows provides openssh support admittedly makes me a bit nervous about the state of the project.