Fix WSL File Permissions

The file permissions on Windows Subsystem for Linux are very screwed up by default. To fix this…

Step 1

Create the file /etc/wsl.conf if it does not already exist and add the following:

[automount]
enabled = true
options = "metadata,umask=22,fmask=11"

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