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darkvalance
darkvalance

Reputation: 440

Remote SSH on VS Code in WSL2 password prompt

I am trying to connect to my server via SSH in VS Code for Ubuntu WSL2. However, whenever I make a connection, it is using the windows SSH instead of my Ubuntu WSL2. Is there anyway to start the remote SSH terminal in Ubuntu instead of the default Windows command prompt?

[10:14:37.201] Log Level: 2  
[10:14:37.205] [email protected]  
[10:14:37.205] win32 x64  
[10:14:37.208] "remote.SSH.sshPath": /usr/bin/ssh  
[10:14:37.208] "remote.SSH.sshConfigurationFile": ~/.ssh/config  
[10:14:37.245] Checking ssh with "/usr/bin/ssh -V"
[10:14:37.251] Got error from ssh: spawn /usr/bin/ssh ENOENT  
[10:14:37.251] The specified path /usr/bin/ssh is not a valid SSH binary  
[10:14:37.252] Checking ssh with "ssh -V"  
[10:14:37.296] > OpenSSH_for_Windows_7.7p1, LibreSSL 2.6.5  
[10:14:37.300] Using SSH config file "~/.ssh/config"
[10:14:37.300] Running script with connection command: ssh -T -D 60054 -F "~/.ssh/config" "test-wsl" bash  
[10:14:37.303] Terminal shell path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2293

Answers (1)

darkvalance
darkvalance

Reputation: 440

If anyone else ran into the same problem as me, it seems that remote server in VS Code is picking up cmd as the default terminal, so I had to copy my private keys over to /mnt/c/Users/{user}/.ssh directory in order to get ssh key based authentication to work. It would be better if I could change the default shell to C:\WINDOWS\System32\bash.exe.

Upvotes: 2

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