This is the information about how to set up SSH on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Install WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on your Windows OS.
Install WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on your Windows OS.
You can run this command from Windows Powershell to install WSL.
wsl –install
After that, update WSL with this command from Windows admin command prompt.
wsl –update
Check WSL version.
wsl –version
Install Ubuntu from Windows store.
Start your Ubuntu from Windows start menu.
The latest version of WSL supports βsystemdβ and we should utilize it fully.
Start your Ubuntu on Windows.
From the WSL terminal (e.g., Ubuntu 22.04), we need to edit the /etc/wsl.conf file.
sudo nano /etc/wsl.conf
Add the following into that file.
[boot]
systemd=true
Shutdown the WSL (and also Ubuntu) and restart your Ubuntuβ¦
wsl βshutdown
From the Ubuntu terminal, install OpenSSH server
sudo apt update
sudo apt install openssh-server
Check the statusβ¦
sudo service ssh status
You should see something like this :
If ssh service is not running, run this command
sudo systemctl start sshd.service
From this point, you should be able to test to ssh from Windows command prompt to your Ubuntu account.
eg., ssh thiha@localhost
If you get β¦
SSH Permission denied (publickey)
error while trying ssh into WSL from Windows, do this :
Edit the file β/etc/ssh/sshd_configβ with any text editor.
Set the PasswordAuthentication to yes .
Set the PubkeyAuthentication to yes .
Save the file.
Restart the ssh with this command :
sudo systemctl restart ssh
After that, permission denied error should be solved.
