Windows Terminal + WSL + MOSH + Remote Server == SSH Tab Profile in Windows Terminal

Windows-Terminal-Configuration-Guide.md

• Hi, so I was looking for a way to configure windows terminal to have a profile that automatically logins to a remote server using mosh.

• I ended up here, but it wasn't a reliable method for me.

• Below is how I managed to do it.

• First make sure the requirements are present, WSL, Windows Terminal and an installed distribution of your choice ( preferably Ubuntu).

• Next proceed; installing mosh and ssh in the wsl distribution of your choice.

• Next create an SSH Key that is not password protected and then add it to your remote server.

• Also do remember to install mosh in the remote server.

• Next within your wsl distribution, create the ~/.ssh/config file and then add the following;

  HostName RemoteServer
    HostName `$remote_ip`
    User `$remote_username`
    IdentityFile ~/path/to/private/key/file

• Restart SSH.

• Test the connection from terminal; mosh RemoteSerer

• If it works add the following line to the windows terminal config file;

  "commandline": "wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04  mosh RemoteServer",

  • Now you are good to go.

No need.

1. Go to project fluent terminal, and just clone it to local disk. you will find a file named mosh-client.exe.
2. Install mosh on a linux machine. copy the file with path /usr/bin/mosh. it's a perl script.
3. put them in your PATH, you would use mosh on Windows natively.