Getting started with SSH on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

 1# create file and folder structure for SSH
 2cd
 3mkdir ~/.ssh
 4touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
 5
 6# set appropriate permissions
 7chmod 700 ~/.ssh
 8chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
 9
10# generate SSH key
11ssh-keygen -t rsa ~/.ssh/ninja
12
13# make sure SSH is running
14# eval `ssh-agent -s`
15eval $(ssh-agent)
16
17# load SSH key
18ssh-add ~/.ssh/ninja

save your config

1# save SSH host configs
2touch ~/.ssh/config
3chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config
4nano ~/.ssh/config

add your config settings

# ~/.ssh/config

# server on Amazon LightSail
Host lightsail
  HostName tornado.mycooldomain.com
  User kunami
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  Port 4234

Now you can just do ssh lightsail everytime you need to connect and it’ll pickup the key, host and port etc. from the saved config.

read more on configs

load your SSH key

1ssh-add ~/.ssh/ninja

Enter passphrase for /home/aamnah/.ssh/ninja:
Identity added: /home/aamnah/.ssh/ninja (/home/aamnah/.ssh/ninja)

Troubleshooting

• Gettings Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. when trying to ssh-add. Make sure that ssh agent is running by running the eval $(ssh-agent) command