Windows Subsystem For Linux 2 (WS-2) Enable SSH

In order to enable ssh on your WSL 2 system (using distro Ubuntu 18.04 ) you need to following configurations:

Open the WSL2, and edit folowing file "/etc/ssh/sshd_config"

and set following:

"Port" 2222
"ListenAddress" 0.0.0.0
"PasswordAuthentication"  "yes"

Save the changes. And then run below command to generate your ssh keys.

sudo ssh-keygen -A

finally restart sshd service using following command,

"sudo service ssh --full-restart"


After that you are all set to go :)