Fix WSL access via remote SSH

sindresorhus · sindresorhus · commit 8821bf791187 · 2025-11-12T22:36:12.000+07:00
Fixes #209
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {isWsl, powerShellPath, convertWslPathToWindows} from 'wsl-utils';
 import defineLazyProperty from 'define-lazy-prop';
 import defaultBrowser from 'default-browser';
 import isInsideContainer from 'is-inside-container';
+import isInSsh from 'is-in-ssh';
 
 const execFile = promisify(childProcess.execFile);
 
@@ -172,7 +173,7 @@ const baseOpen = async options => {
 		if (app) {
 			cliArguments.push('-a', app);
 		}
-	} else if (platform === 'win32' || (isWsl && !isInsideContainer() && !app)) {
+	} else if (platform === 'win32' || (isWsl && !isInsideContainer() && !isInSsh && !app)) {
 		command = await powerShellPath();
 
 		cliArguments.push(
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 	"dependencies": {
 		"default-browser": "^5.2.1",
 		"define-lazy-prop": "^3.0.0",
+		"is-in-ssh": "^1.0.0",
 		"is-inside-container": "^1.0.0",
 		"wsl-utils": "^0.2.0"
 	},
