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I need reverse-SSH access to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Ubuntu. Normally this isn't a problem with Linux machines but with WSL it isn't working.

First I establish the reverse SSH connection from WSL to my server:

ssh -R 19999:localhost:22 [email protected]

From my server I then attempt to connect to this reverse SSH tunnel:

ssh user@localhost -p 19999

For a standard Linux machine, the connection should now be established. With WSL, instead I encounter the following type of error:

connection closed by ::1 port 19999

Why is this going wrong? How can I get this working?

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  • Works for me (WSL on 1703). How are you starting sshd? What do the logs say?
    – jjlin
    Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 6:55
  • It may be related to this : superuser.com/questions/1352714/…
    – Mathieu Westphal
    Commented Oct 10, 2018 at 10:06
  • can you ssh yourself within WSL? in other words, is there a sshd running?
    – SparedWhisle
    Commented Jan 23, 2019 at 5:45

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Try 

ssh -R 127.0.0.1:19999:127.0.0.1:22 [email protected]

and 

ssh [email protected] -p 19999
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