Terminal SSH

This extension allows you to easily establish SSH connections directly within VSCode's editor pane.

Features

• Start SSH connections directly within VSCode's editor pane.
• Connect by selecting hosts from your existing SSH configuration file (~/.ssh/config).
• Choose hosts from a quick pick menu or manually enter new connection information.

Usage

1. Open the command palette (Ctrl + Shift + P).
2. Execute the Terminal-SSH: Connect to host in terminal... command.
3. You can also select from the Open a Remote Window option.
4. When you connect to a selected host, a new SSH session will be displayed in an editor pane.

Private Key Authentication

• For manual connections (user@host), the extension first attempts to connect without explicitly specifying a key.
• If authentication fails with public key related errors, the extension prompts you to select a private key file and retry.
• The private key is selected via a file chooser dialog.

Configuration

You can specify a custom SSH configuration file in settings.json:

{
  "terminal-ssh.sshConfigPath": "C:\\tmp\\custom-config"
}

You can also set default terminal colors and per-host overrides:

{
  "terminal-ssh.defaultColors": {
    "foreground": "#f0f0f0",
    "background": "#1e1e1e"
  },
  "terminal-ssh.hostColors": {
    "dev": {
      "foreground": "#d4ffd4",
      "background": "#102010"
    },
    "prod": {
      "foreground": "#ffe0e0",
      "background": "#2a1010"
    },
    "user@example.com": {
      "foreground": "#f8f8f2",
      "background": "#1b1f23"
    }
  }
}

Host matching is resolved in this order:

1. Exact key match (for example, user@example.com)
2. Host part of user@host (for example, example.com)
3. If selected from SSH config alias, resolved HostName and User@HostName
4. terminal-ssh.defaultColors