connect using ssh to Azure VM from powershell

If you are on windows 10 you can install the ssh client from Settings-Apps and Features.

During your VM creation in Azure it will ask to save the private key and if you have it saved. It might be with an extension of .pem.

Copy this private key to a directory where no one else has permissions except you. Or remove everyone from the security properties except yourself.

Open powershell and navigate to the directory where ssh is installed. 

Enter the command in the following format

.\ssh.exe -i C:\\ubuntukey.pem username@publicipfothevm

The username must have been created during the VM creation. 

The public ip can be seen in Azure portal.

 

If you dont have the VM username or key. You can reset the username and use your own public key using the following in command prompt.

 ssh-keygen.exe -m PEM -t rsa -b 4096.

This command will create two files in the directory you specify with extensions.  .pub and .pem

These are your pulic and privatekeys. Rename them to yourkey.pem and yourkey.pub.

Copy the contents of the .pub file and put that in the ssh public key section of reset password blade in Azure portal. Give an username you would like to be used as admin on the server.

user ssh.exe in the following format. 

ssh.exe -i c:\youdirectory\yourkey.pem username@publicipofthevm