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                Windows SSH Server with Password-less Key Authentication and Default WSL2 Shell
              
          
    Windows SSH Server with Password-less  Key Authentication and Default WSL2 Shell


Disclaimer: I am not a Windows Admin and I'm not even that good with PowerShell.

I wanted to be able to SSH into my Windows laptop directly into Linux. I also wanted to disable
password authentication and only allow public key (RSA in my case) authentication.
Scott Hanselman wrote a blog post
on how to make your default WSL2 distro your default shell for SSH. Windows OS Hub published
an article on using public key