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VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

310 points · 218 comments · Rapzid

innocent_name · 1790201092 · focus · HN ↗
Moreover, it explicitly breaks in VSCodium and no good alternatives exist.
1. zenapollo · 1790201982 · focus · HN ↗
  Not sure what you consider "no good" alternatives. jeanp413.open-remote-ssh[0] has worked flawlessly. It's the first or second search hit in the extension manager for "ssh". It's a fork of Microsoft's previous extension before the proprietarized it.
  0: <a href="https://open-vsx.org/extension/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh" rel="nofollow">https://open-vsx.org/extension/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh
  1. kayson · 1790211274 · focus · HN ↗
    I very much dislike this extension because it uses a built-in ssh client that is far from feature complete and does a lot of reinventing the wheel. Microsoft's extension uses the system ssh binary, as does <a href="https://open-vsx.org/extension/aergic/zygos-vscodium" rel="nofollow">https://open-vsx.org/extension/aergic/zygos-vscodium which I much prefer. After discovering the latter, I uninstalled VSCode and have fully moved to VSCodium.
    DanielHB · 1790249480 · focus · HN ↗
    In practice, if I don't use the terminal from inside the editor, what are the advantages of this extension compared to the other one?
    kayson · 1790380498 · focus · HN ↗
    Security of using a battle tested ssh binary vs whatever random javascript library is being used.

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