Updated DefaultShell (markdown)

Manoj Ampalam 2018-09-13 11:07:05 -07:00
parent aff7bac754
commit e756ff15a5

@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ To configure a default shell, ensure that the following prerequisites are met
Follow these steps:
- On the server side, configure the default ssh shell in the windows registry.
- `Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH\DefaultShell` - Full path (case sensitive) of the shell executable
- `Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH\DefaultShellCommandOption` - The switch that the configured default shell requires to execute a command and immediately exit and return to the calling process. It is used for executing the remote ssh commands. _Example- ssh user@ip hostname_
- `Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH\DefaultShell` - full path of the shell executable
- `Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH\DefaultShellCommandOption` (optional) - switch that the configured default shell requires to execute a command, immediately exit and return to the calling process. By default this is `-c`.
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If you are configuring the powershell.exe/cmd.exe/WSL-bash.exe as default ssh shell then you can ignore `Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH\DefaultShellCommandOption`. Your registry should look like [this](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23668037/32013581-67206dca-b970-11e7-8820-fde658d302c1.png).
If you are configuring the powershell.exe/cmd.exe/WSL-bash.exe as default ssh shell, your registry should look like [this](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23668037/32013581-67206dca-b970-11e7-8820-fde658d302c1.png).
If you want to configure default shell (Ex- cygwin) other than powershell/cmd/WSL-bash then your registry should look like [this](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23668037/32015013-9e644cee-b974-11e7-8375-bf3d50f596df.png)