Installing an SFTP server on Windows using "sshd.exe install" does not work

Question

I am trying to install an SFTP server on my Windows 10 Machine and I am following this tutorial: http://woshub.com/installing-sftp-ssh-ftp-server-on-windows-server-2012-r2/.

I have already generated the keys and now I am inputting this command on Windows PowerShell (which I run as administrator), but I get an error which I don't know how to fix:

PS C:\OpenSSH-Win64\OpenSSH-Win64> .\sshd.exe install
__PROGRAMDATA__\ssh/sshd_config: No such file or directory

I tried to copy the file sshd_config inside the ProgramData\SSH folder but then I got this:

PS C:\OpenSSH-Win64\OpenSSH-Win64> .\sshd.exe install
Extra argument install.

Does anyone know how I could fix this? I appreciate any help, cheers

Answer 1

That article is probably rather dated. Though I actually do not think that there was ever a version of Win32-OpenSSH that used that command to install. So the article is possibly even completely wrong.

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Anyway, check:

• Official installation guide or
• my article on Installing OpenSSH on Windows.

Both show that the command to use is:

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File install-sshd.ps1