WSL Agent Bridge

This utility allows the Windows port of ssh-agent to be used by WSL programs.

It works by creating a WSL-accessible Unix socket that can be used as $SSH_AUTH_SOCK. All connections are simply redirected to the true ssh-agent process via its named pipe.

Usage

To use, simply run wsl-agent-bridge.exe. No Arguments are required.

By default, the bridge socket is created at the path $HOME\AppData\Local\ssh-agent.sock. This path may be customized by setting the $SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable (in Windows).

Installation

To install the program, you need Git and Rust.

git clone https://github.com/reynoldsbd/wsl-agent-bridge
cd wsl-agent-bridge
cargo install --path .

You may also wish to schedule a task to start the bridge at login. Just search for "Task Scheduler" in the start menu.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.