Visual Studio Code Remote SSH uses Windows username instead of username in ssh_config

Question

I'm using Visual Studio Code on Windows 7, along with Microsoft's Remote SSH extension. I added new remote host, and saved configuration in ssh_config file.

When I open that file, everything looks ok, both User and Host values. However, when extension asks me for a password, I can see that it doesn't use [email protected] , values that are written in ssh_config files, instead it uses proper host but it also uses my windows username instead of the username I set in ssh_config file.

Any solutions to that?

Answer 1

I found that including the username in the Host definition of the .ssh config file fixed it for me.

Edit the contents of C:/Users/me/.ssh/config from:

Host bar
  User foo
  HostName bar
  ForwardAgent yes

to:

Host foo@bar
  User foo
  HostName bar
  ForwardAgent yes

Answer 2

I had the same problem, and what fixed it for me was disabling remote.SSH.useLocalServer in VS Code's settings.

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/2512

Edit: fix link.