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4 years ago

SSH Agent on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Hello, First of all, thank you for this feature, I absolutely love it ! I'm using it both on my Windows and my Mac and it works like a charm. Excellent work guys :-) I was wondering if it would ...
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4 years ago

Hey Tristan!

I was actually working on this myself tonight, here's what I did.

OS: Windows 11 21H2
WSL 2 Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

Big big big shoutout to https://1password.community/discussion/comment/629936

  1. Enable 1Password SSH as defined here for WINDOWS: https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh/get-started#step-3-turn-on-the-1password-ssh-agent
  2. Install the .exe https://github.com/jstarks/npiperelay somewhere where your Windows PATH can see it (make sure it's accessible from ubuntu and powershell, might need to restart Windows Terminal completely)
  3. Update your .bashrc or .zshrc in ubuntu with: # Configure ssh forwarding export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$HOME/.ssh/agent.sock # need `ps -ww` to get non-truncated command for matching # use square brackets to generate a regex match for the process we want but that doesn't match the grep command running it! ALREADY_RUNNING=$(ps -auxww | grep -q "piperelay.exe -ei -s //./pipe/openssh-ssh-agent"; echo $?) if [[ $ALREADY_RUNNING != "0" ]]; then if [[ -S $SSH_AUTH_SOCK ]]; then # not expecting the socket to exist as the forwarding command isn't running (http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/fto.html) echo "removing previous socket..." rm $SSH_AUTH_SOCK fi echo "Starting SSH-Agent relay..." # setsid to force new session to keep running # set socat to listen on $SSH_AUTH_SOCK and forward to npiperelay which then forwards to openssh-ssh-agent on windows (setsid socat UNIX-LISTEN:$SSH_AUTH_SOCK,fork EXEC:"npiperelay.exe -ei -s //./pipe/openssh-ssh-agent",nofork &) >/dev/null 2>&1 fi
  4. Restart the ubuntu terminal / resource the rc file.
  5. Test with ssh-add -l Should see your 1password ssh keys

From here Git and SSH in your Ubuntu instance should default to the 1password ssh-agent, with fallback to id_rsa (or whatever is configured in ur /etc/ssh config file.

Hope this helps!!
Matt