promofaux / wsl-ssh-pageant

A Pageant -> TCP bridge for use with WSL, allowing for Pageant to be used as an ssh-ageant within the WSL environment.

wsl-ssh-pageant

How to use with WSL

1. On the Windows side run Pageant (or compatible agent such as gpg4win).

2. Run wsl-ssh-pageant.exe --wsl C:\wsl-ssh-pageant (or any other path) on windows in a short path (max ~100 characters total!)

3. In WSL run the following

$ export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/mnt/your-path-to-wsl-ssh-pageant.exe/ssh-agent.sock

For example, if you have wsl-ssh-pageant.exe in C:\wsl-ssh-pageant

$ export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/mnt/c/wsl-ssh-pageant/ssh-agent.sock

4. The SSH keys from Pageant should now be usable by ssh!

How to use with Windows 10 native OpenSSH client

1. On the Windows side run Pageant (or compatible agent such as gpg4win).

2. Run wsl-ssh-pageant.exe --winssh ssh-pageant (or any other name) on windows in a short path (max ~100 characters total!)

3. In cmd.exe run the following (or define it in your Environment Variables on windows)

$ set SSH_AUTH_SOCK=\\.\pipe\ssh-pageant

(or whichever name you gave the pipe)

4. The SSH keys from Pageant should now be usable by ssh!

Note

You can use both --winssh and --wsl parameters at the same time with the same process to proxy for both

Credit

Thanks to John Starks for npiperelay, showing a more secure way to create a stream between WSL and Linux.