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Git: SSH error Permission denied in WSL2 + Remote Containers

See original GitHub issue

Issue Type: Bug

When using a remote container within WSL2 that has ssh-agent (in this case using keychain) setup to cache credentials I can use git fine from my terminal.

However trying to use the Source Control tools with Git results in an error:

git@my-redacted-host.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

There is plenty of advice/documentation prior to WSL2 but with this particular combination I can’t find any documentation.

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.48.0-insider (15ada625f20086007e2c4aa0d760234360cd648f, 2020-07-30T14:43:12.691Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19041 Remote OS version: Linux x64 4.19.104-microsoft-standard

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel® Core™ i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 x 3408)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled flash_3d: enabled flash_stage3d: enabled flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: disabled_off opengl: enabled_on protected_video_decode: unavailable_off rasterization: enabled skia_renderer: disabled_off_ok video_decode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	15.91GB (2.73GB free)
Process Argv
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Item	Value
Remote	Dev Container: vscode-dev-aws
OS	Linux x64 4.19.104-microsoft-standard
CPUs	Intel® Core™ i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 x 3407)
Memory (System)	7.77GB (0.21GB free)
VM	0%

Extensions (17)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
remote-containers	ms-	0.128.0
remote-ssh-edit-nightly	ms-	2020.7.38340
remote-ssh-explorer-nightly	ms-	2019.8.31680
remote-ssh-nightly	ms-	2020.7.38340
remote-wsl	ms-	0.44.4
aws-toolkit-vscode	ama	1.12.0
vscode-markdownlint	Dav	0.36.2
gitlens	eam	10.2.2
gitlab-workflow	Git	3.1.0
aws-cli-configure	mar	0.3.0
vsliveshare	ms-	1.0.2478
vsliveshare-audio	ms-	0.1.85
vsliveshare-pack	ms-	0.4.0
resourcemonitor	mut	1.0.7
trailing-spaces	sha	0.3.1
gitflow	vec	1.2.1
markdown-all-in-one	yzh	3.2.0

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:12
Comments:13

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

gundamkidcommented, Nov 23, 2020

Thank you @hastarin

I resolved this issue. My way is install zsh to my WSL2-Ubuntu and enable plugin ssh-agent and import my private key

zstyle :omz:plugins:ssh-agent identities id_rsa.

After all, boom! Everything is fine!

3reactions

hastarincommented, Nov 6, 2020

@gundamkid I did get this working again for me in a more recent version.

It involved installing the socat package under the WSL2 container. I’m afraid I can’t recall exactly where I learned I needed to do that.

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