microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release
Forwarding ssh agent from Windows to WSL
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Since Dec 13, 2024.
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Description
Hi,
I think the Remote-WSL extension would benefit from a "Forward ssh agent from Windows to WSL" option. Both Remote-SSH and Dev Containers offer similar functionality, and it would be great if Remote-WSL would support this too.
There is the wsl-ssh-agent project which seems to still work. It could be used as base for an official implementation.
In case this feature gets implemented, a workaround for Win32-OpenSSH issue #1234 would also be necessary. An error message from the Remote WSL extension might probably be enough.
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