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29 lines
909 B
Markdown
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# SSH agent in WSL
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There are a plenty of ways to enable the SSH agent in WSL to avoid the password ask at every connect to a remote host.
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One of them is the following.
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Add these lines to the ~/.profile file
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```
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ssh_pid=$(pidof ssh-agent)
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# If the agent is not running, start it, and save the environment to a file
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if [ "$ssh_pid" = "" ]; then
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ssh_env="$(ssh-agent -s)"
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echo "$ssh_env" | head -n 2 | tee ~/.ssh_agent_env > /dev/null
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init=1
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fi
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# Load the environment from the file
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if [ -f ~/.ssh_agent_env ]; then
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eval "$(cat ~/.ssh_agent_env)"
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fi
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```
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After every start of WSL, add the key to the SSH agent and unlock it with the password. For example when starting the day, after WSL start
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`ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519`
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## todo
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- Add the ability to ask the key password on login
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- Store the SSH key between restarts (probably requires external packages)
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