Forwarding SSH Agent requests from WSL to Windows
Find out how to store your SSH keys in Windows and access them from your WSL distros
Fun with Git for Windows, SSH Keys and Passphrases
Disclaimer: this post is one to file under “things I’m blogging in the hope that I find the answer more quickly next time”.
Background
I switched to using SSH key auth for GitHub and Azure DevOps Repos a long time ago and never looked back. For a while I was using SSH keys without passphrases but got round to adding passphrases a while back. I set up the Windows OpenSSH Authentication Agent - the service defaults to Disabled so I set it as Automatic start and nudged it to Running. (For more information, see the docs on installing Windows OpenSSH)
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