Since you cannot mount a USB into WSL2 I thought I’d get an SSH server running on it and just use the ssh form of Git URLs to access the private repo on it.
lbgdn: Ok, the trick is to put the public key in
%PROGRAMDATA%\ssh\administrators_authorized_keysand change security on it to only SYSTEM and Administrators full access.
You might have to disable inherited permissions on the file in order to remove the “Authenticated User” permission, which you can to in the GUI or with the following commands:
icacls C:\ProgramData\ssh\administrators_authorized_keys /inheritance:d
icacls C:\ProgramData\ssh\administrators_authorized_keys /remove "NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users"
I also forgot to set the default shell to PowerShell (which is covered in the documentation, but here it is):
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH" -Name DefaultShell -Value "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -PropertyType String -Force
I thought about making my default shell bash even on Windows, but that is probably a bad idea given all the PS commands that I generally need to run.