SSH remote sessions in Claude Desktop on 3P changedthird-party/claude-desktop/ssh-remote-sessions
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114114The Claude Code engine is a standalone executable with no runtime dependencies. The device needs the OpenSSH client (`ssh` and `ssh-keygen`). Claude Desktop runs the first `ssh` on the user's `PATH`; to pin a specific OpenSSH installation instead, set [`sshClientPath`](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#sshclientpath) (beta, Claude Desktop 1.46388.1 or later) to the program's absolute path, and `ssh-keygen` is then taken from the same directory when present. If the pinned program is missing or cannot be run, SSH connections fail with an error that shows the configured path, rather than falling back to another `ssh`.
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116By default, Claude Desktop makes the SSH connection with its built-in client and runs the device's OpenSSH tools only to evaluate the user's SSH configuration, look up host keys, and run the session's terminal. To have the device's OpenSSH client carry the connection itself, set [`sshTransport`](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#sshtransport) to `system-openssh` (beta, Claude Desktop 1.52386.0 or later). Your own OpenSSH build's Kerberos (GSSAPI), certificate, and `ssh_config` support then handles authentication. The program is the one `sshClientPath` names, or else the first `ssh` on the user's `PATH`, and it must be OpenSSH 7.6 or newer (on Windows, Win32-OpenSSH 9.4 or newer). On a Windows device with no usable OpenSSH client and no `sshClientPath`, the built-in client is used instead. `builtin` selects the built-in client explicitly. A change applies to new connections, and sessions that are already connected keep their client.
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116118Claude Desktop writes the following into the SSH user's home directory on the host. Each user who connects gets their own copy.
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