Windows 10 OpenSSH – Useful commands

This article is the fifth of a series I’ve written about migrating from using PuTTy on Windows to using the native OpenSSH client now available on Windows 10: you can read the rest of the articles via:

1. Installation
2. Storing keys using the SSH Agent
3. Importing existing keys
4. Creating a new public/private key pair
5. Other useful OpenSSH commands < You are here
6. Configuring Windows Git

Check the keys have been imported to the SSH agent

ssh-add -l

2048 SHA256:9hLEuBRdTBGDmAWxaDXhSwvqYLGVxDVtGiMumz9NUak C:\Users\userName/.ssh/id_rsa (RSA)

Show the public keys in the ssh-agent

ssh-add -L

ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza...1F53nyTYMlmtcrZZp C:\Users\userName/.ssh/id_rsa

Delete all keys from the ssh-agent

ssh-add -D : hope you kept a backup!

Delete a specific key from the ssh-agent

ssh-add -d C:\Users\userName/.ssh/id_rsa