ssh-agent on windows 11 does not work. Is there some trick I'm missing or something?

I also am having a similar issue; I followed the instructions in the docs, and the Settings dialog shows that the agent is "Running", but the named pipe it should be using (\\.\pipe\openssh-ssh-agent) doesn't exist:

λ gci \\.\pipe\ -filter *ssh*
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Update: when I looked in the logs, it became apparent that the agent actually failed to start, even though the UI said it was "Running". Two errors in the logs occurred, neither one of which were surfaced in the UI at all.


ERROR 2023-09-07T15:36:08.306 tokio-runtime-worker(ThreadId(2)) [1P:ssh\op-ssh-agent\src\lib.rs:171] Unable to start agent, another process is already listening
ERROR 2023-09-07T15:36:08.307 tokio-runtime-worker(ThreadId(2)) [1P:C:\builds\dev\core\core\ssh\op-agent-controller\src\desktop.rs:401] LocationUnavailable
ERROR 2023-09-07T15:36:08.307 tokio-runtime-worker(ThreadId(2)) [1P:ssh\op-agent-controller\src\desktop.rs:407] SSH Agent failed to start.
ERROR 2023-09-07T15:38:46.747 tokio-runtime-worker(ThreadId(7)) [1P:op-ui\src\ssh_key_decryption\mod.rs:103] Error processing imported private key: invalid passphrase provided


The fix was to disable the agent, quit 1Password, start it back up, unlock it, and then enable the agent again, and that seemed to do that trick.

Did this get resolved? I'm having the same issue.
* Windows 11 22H2
* Windows Terminal Version: 1.17.11461.0
* 1Password for Windows 8.10.7 (81007041)

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Yep, Just checked to confirm and the service is disabled. Also once I export the key and put it in .ssh as id_ed25519 then I get a windows security popup that says that 1password is asking to allow windows terminal to use one of my keys, and names my key by the name I've got it stored in 1password. But if I delete id_ed25519 from .ssh then I get an immediate auth failure.

Hi @siggib:

Just to confirm, have you disabled the Windows OpenSSH Authentication Agent from services.msc?

Let me know.

Jack