Failed to start wsl-vpnkit.service: Interactive authentication required.

[AllenElguira16]

Hello @AmmarRahman, there is a persisting issue regarding systemctl where it needs a Interactive authentication required.

I am using zsh for my shell

If I manually run sudo systemctl start wsl-vpnkit.service it will work

[andyneff]

What OS are you trying to run this in? The command is normally (Not systemctl):

service wsl-vpnkit status > /dev/null || service wsl-vpnkit start

No sudo should be need for that.

[andyneff]

This only runs on Debian and Ubuntu. If you are using something else, you need to create an Ubuntu WSL and install it in there.

Only install this in one WSL.

In my case, I installed in the distro named Ubuntu-20.04 so I added the following to all of my all my bashrc's (or zshrc in your case)

if [ -n "${WSL_INTEROP+set}" ] && \
   [ "${WSL_DISTRO_NAME}" != "Ubuntu-20.04" ] && \
   ! /mnt/c/Windows/System32/wsl.exe --cd / -d Ubuntu-20.04 service wsl-vpnkit status &>/dev/null; then
  /mnt/c/Windows/System32/wsl.exe --cd / -d Ubuntu-20.04 service wsl-vpnkit start
  # sudo equivalent
  # /mnt/c/Windows/System32/wsl.exe --cd / -d Ubuntu-20.04 --user root service wsl-vpnkit start
fi

[AllenElguira16]

Yep, I forgot to add to zsh
will close this one, thanks~!