WSL: ssh localhost Permission denied (publickey)

发布时间 2023-06-13 14:04:25作者: ITKingyw

If you're running Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux, there will not be a preinstalled public key or authorized keys list, so you'll need to generate your own.

If you don't already have openssh-server installed:

  1. sudo apt-get upgrade
  2. sudo apt-get update
  3. sudo apt-get install openssh-server
  4. sudo service ssh start

Then take the following steps to enable sshing to localhost:

  1. cd ~/.ssh
  2. ssh-keygen to generate a public/private rsa key pair; use the default options
  3. cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys to append the key to the authorized_keys file
  4. chmod 640 authorized_keys to set restricted permissions
  5. sudo service ssh restart to pickup recent changes
  6. ssh localhost