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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

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 for his initial work on the C# version of wsl-ssh-pageant
• John Starks for npiperelay