When trying to clone a remote repository in PhpStorm on Windows into WSL2 subsystem (\\\$wsl\somedir\) over SSH ([email protected]/user/repo.git) I get an error „Permission denied (public key)“. Private key is correctly located within /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.

But when trying the same from a shell within WSL directly (after a eval ssh-agent and ssh-add) that works. But it is not possible using the PhpStorm GUI (New Project -> Get from VCS).

CodePudding user response：

Private key is correctly located within /home/user/id_rsa.

The default localtion should be /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa, not /home/user/id_rsa.

If that was a typo, and the key is actually in .ssh, open PhpStorm from a shell where you type first: export GIT_SSH_COMMAND='ssh -Tv'.

Check the terminal (or try and clone from the terminal) to see what Git is trying to access as private key.

CodePudding user response：

Solution simply seems to be changing access rights for the private key stored in WSL with „chmod 0600 id_rsa“.