WSL ssh-agent

Jonathan Tey on Ubuntu 18.04, Windows, WSL, SSH, SSH-agent |

IntroductionWSL on Windows is great. After using it for some months, I have learned way more about how Windows and Linux systems interact. One of the things that bothered me was that for some reason my SSH keys on the WSL system never works. On my previous machine running Ubuntu,…

Git file permissions on WSL

Jonathan Tey on Windows, Ubuntu 18.04, WSL |

Due to how docker volumes are mounted on Windows, I had to checkout git repositories on Ubuntu WSL to the Windows directory mount, eg. /c/workspace/... File permissions don't translate well from Linux to Windows, hence, the git files have their permissions "changed" to 755, which is the default mounted…