# Code extracted from with minor modifications # Configure ssh forwarding export SSH_AUTH_SOCK = $HOME/.1password/agent.sock We need to install socat which is a utility to transfer data between channels, this tool will use npiperelay to then communicate with the named pipes.

I'm using Ubuntu as my WSL distro, this may change if you're using another distro. Now that we have the prerequisites fulfilled, we can connect our WSL distro with the SSH agent. If you don't know how to modify your system's PATH, you can learn how to do it in this article. Unzip it, and paste the npiperelay.exe file in any folder that's configured in your system's PATH. At the time of writing this post, the latest release is v0.1.0 from July 2, 2020.

To install it, we need to open the GitHub repository and download the latest release. This tool allows WSL to communicate with Windows' named pipes. To communicate between WSL and the 1Password SSH agent, we'd need to use npiperelay. That's all we need to do to activate the SSH agent. You need to check the “Use the SSH agent” checkbox. Open your 1Password settings and go to the “Developer” section. You can learn more about Windows Hello in this article. To activate 1Password's SSH agent, you must have Windows Hello activated. If you have not created or imported your SSH keys into 1Password, you can do it by following this article. I've been using Windows + WSL as my main driver for a few weeks, and one of the things I missed the most was the ease of setup of the 1Password's SSH agent and Linux or macOS.Īfter searching for a while, I found one thread in the 1Password Community forum that linked to a post containing the steps to forward the SSH Agent requests from WSL to the Windows' SSH agent.Īmazingly, you don't have to do anything extra to make it work with 1Password SSH agent, and I'll write the steps I did to activate it below. TIL: You can use 1Password's SSH Agent in WSL, and it's not that complicated.

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