https://github.com/NZSmartie/wsl-ssh-pageant

A Pageant bridge for WSL, enabling ssh-ageants to talk to to PuTTY Pagent or GnuPG for Windows
https://github.com/NZSmartie/wsl-ssh-pageant

gpg4win pageant putty ssh ssh-agent wsl

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A Pageant bridge for WSL, enabling ssh-ageants to talk to to PuTTY Pagent or GnuPG for Windows

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/NZSmartie/wsl-ssh-pageant
• Owner: NZSmartie
• Created: 2018-04-04T14:03:19.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-04-04T14:08:21.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-18T18:32:43.397Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: gpg4win, pageant, putty, ssh, ssh-agent, wsl
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 69.3 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: Readme.md

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README

        
# [wsl-ssh-pageant](https://github.com/benpye/wsl-ssh-pageant) ported to Go

**Now supports multiple ssh connections concurrently!**

A Pageant bridge for WSL, enabling ssh-ageants to talk to to PuTTY Pagent or GnuPG for Windows 

![Demo](demo.gif?raw=True)

## How to use

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

2. Ensure that the directory containing `wsl-ssh-pageant.exe` is on the `PATH` in WSL, for example my path contains `/mnt/c/git/wsl-ssh-pageant'

3. In WSL run the following

```

$ socat UNIX-LISTEN:/tmp/wsl-ssh-pageant.socket,unlink-close,unlink-early,fork EXEC:"wsl-ssh-pageant.exe" &

$ export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/wsl-ssh-pageant.socket

```

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

## Credit

Thanks to 

 - [Ben Pye](https://githib.com/benpye) for his initial work on the C# version of [wsl-ssh-pageant](https://github.com/benpye/wsl-ssh-pageant)

 - [John Starks](https://github.com/jstarks/) for [npiperelay](https://github.com/jstarks/npiperelay/)