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andeke07
3 years agoNew Contributor
ssh agent failing to start
I have been trying to set up the SSH Agent on my Win10 machine but it doesn't seem to be running. I followed all the steps to enable the OpenSSH Authentication Agent but cannot get my OpenSSH executa...
Jack_P_1P
1Password Team
3 years agoHi andeke07:
I'm sorry for the delay here. To confirm, did you additionally disable the default OpenSSH Authentication Agent from Services? https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh/get-started/#check-if-the-openssh-authentication-agent-service-is-installed-and-running
If the default OpenSSH agent has the SSH authentication pipe reserved, then the 1Password SSH agent won't be able to start up. Let me know if that's the case.
Jack