Connection always refused

[shokinn]

Hey there,
I'm currently facing the issue no matter what I do, I always get an Connection refused by the ssh-agend inside of my WSL 2 instance.

Here what I did:

• Downloaded and put the wsl-ssh-pageant-amd64.exe to C:\Tools\wsl-ssh-agent\wsl-ssh-pageant-amd64.exe.
• Create the directory C:\wsl-ssh-pageant
• Run pagent
• Loaded the public key to pagent (the key is stored in my KeePass file, KeePassXC loads the key into the pagent)
• Started wsl-ssh-pageant-amd64.exe within cmd (C:\Tools\wsl-ssh-agent\wsl-ssh-pageant-amd64.exe --systray --wsl C:\wsl-ssh-pageant\ssh-agent.sock --verbose)
• set SSH_AUTH_SOCK to SSH_AUTH_SOCK
• Ran ssh-add -l

Output inside of WSL:

[phg@AINCRAD ~]$ export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/mnt/c/wsl-ssh-pageant/ssh-agent.sock
[phg@AINCRAD ~]$ ssh-add -l
Error connecting to agent: Connection refused

Output from wsl-ssh-pageant-amd64 running on windows:

C:\Users\philip>C:\Tools\wsl-ssh-agent\wsl-ssh-pageant-amd64.exe --systray --wsl C:\wsl-ssh-pageant\ssh-agent.sock --verbose
2020/12/22 15:47:05 Listening on Unix socket: C:\wsl-ssh-pageant\ssh-agent.sock

The strange thing is that I don't get any log messages that there was a try to connect to socket.

I also tried to put the socket file in different locations.
No change of this behaviour.

Any Ideas where i'm doing mistakes?

[benpye]

Just to check, is this WSL 1 or WSL 2?

[shokinn]

WSL 2.

[eneiford]

I am experiencing the exact same behavior. Any update / resolution?

[kohenkatz]

Looks like a duplicate of #33

[benpye]

Thanks @kohenkatz - it does look like this is a duplicate of #33 . Unfortunately WSL 2 doesn't have any AF_UNIX type socket support, so using the named pipe with npiperelay is probably the best solution.