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Change Entra ID limitation from alert to paragraph in intro section
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This document provides an overview of how to use these tools on Windows to begin using key-based authentication with Secure Shell (SSH). If you're not familiar with SSH key management, we strongly recommend that you review [NIST document IR 7966](http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2015/NIST.IR.7966.pdf), titled _Security of Interactive and Automated Access Management Using Secure Shell (SSH)_.
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Key-based authentication in OpenSSH for Windows works with local Windows accounts and Active Directory (domain) accounts. Microsoft Entra ID accounts don't support key-based authentication and must use password-based authentication instead.
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> [!NOTE]
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> Windows OpenSSH doesn't support the `AuthorizedKeysCommand` and `AuthorizedKeysCommandUser` directives. Meaning you can't dynamically fetch SSH keys from Active Directory using these directives as you might on Linux system. For more information about the supported configuration options, see [OpenSSH Server configuration for Windows Server and Windows](openssh-server-configuration.md).
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> Key-based authentication in OpenSSH for Windows only works with local Windows accounts and Active Directory (domain) accounts. It doesn't work with Microsoft Entra ID accounts. When using Microsoft Entra ID accounts, you must rely on password-based authentication methods instead.
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## Key pairs
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Key pairs refer to the public and private key files that are used by certain authentication protocols.

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