SSH client

Kayla Cinnamon (@cinnamon-msft)

This page isn't clear as to whether Windows Terminal provides an SSH client or if it still needs to be installed as an optional Windows 10 feature.

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Thanks for flagging this! We should clarify the wording.

Windows comes with an SSH client by default. It lives in C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH.
I believe the SSH client does not need to be installed manually, but it can be installed via the Optional Features page if it's missing.
Terminal does not ship an SSH client :)

I added a bit more context around OpenSSH being included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 in PR: #598

Hope that's helpful. Closing this issue -- please reopen if you feel more clarification is needed. Thanks for bringing this issue to our awareness.

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