l0ser140 / ssh-agent-wsl2

Description

Allows you to use ssh keys through ssh-agent on Windows in WSL2 machine. Works with Keepass KeeAgent plugin or open-ssh-agent. This approach uses npiperelay.exe to forward Windows named pipe into WSL2.

Dependencies

• WSL2. You can check version with wsl --list --verbose
• socat installed in your WSL.

sudo apt install socat

Installation

• Dowload repository as zip
• Extract files
• Run install.sh in WSL2

sudo install.sh

Manual installation

• download npiperelay and extract npiperelay.exe to /usr/local/bin/npiperelay.exe
• copy wsl-ssh-agent-forwarder to /usr/local/bin/wsl-ssh-agent-forwarder
• set execution permissions to wsl-ssh-agent-forwarder and npiperelay.exe
• add line . /usr/local/bin/wsl-ssh-agent-forwarder to ~/.bashrc

Origin

Based on strarsis Gist