ssh-add creates Error connecting to agent: Connection timed out (Windows 10)

Question

I am trying to add my ssh to git. I have generated it, there are 2 files in ~/.ssh In a terminal (MINGW64) I type:

$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

It responds:

Agent pid 3480

Then I type

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

It responds (after like 15 secs):

Error connecting to agent: Connection timed out

The whole code (with no ssh-agent.exe processes run):

MNXALbl4@DESKTOP-GTSHV44 MINGW64 /c/NodeWebServer (master)
$ ls -al ~/.ssh
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 1 MNXALbl4 197609    0 июл  5 02:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 MNXALbl4 197609    0 июл  5 02:08 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 MNXALbl4 197609 3243 июл  5 02:05 id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 MNXALbl4 197609  741 июл  5 02:05 id_rsa.pub

MNXALbl4@DESKTOP-GTSHV44 MINGW64 /c/NodeWebServer (master)
$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Agent pid 12824

MNXALbl4@DESKTOP-GTSHV44 MINGW64 /c/NodeWebServer (master)
$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Error connecting to agent: Connection timed out

Any ideas? I tried all solutions I could find.

no, it was generated through the standard " ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "myEmail@yandex.ru" " command, and then had nothing done with it. — Michael.Medvedskiy, Jul 05 '18 at 12:32
Thank you, thou the course I am currently taking (following all of the steps), explicitly showed all of the above steps (including the agent launch, with the same key creation path) working for the instructor, without any errors on his side (it was on mac OS thou) — Michael.Medvedskiy, Jul 05 '18 at 12:36
OK, I suppose adding a passphrase-less key to an agent should work (even if it is not useful). What git version are you using on your Windows? — VonC, Jul 05 '18 at 12:37
And would the issue persist with Git 2.18? (https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases) — VonC, Jul 05 '18 at 12:39
I just re-installed git with 2.18 version, and still the same mistake persists — Michael.Medvedskiy, Jul 05 '18 at 12:46
Does your ssh key works for authenticating to the remote repo? `ssh -T git@` — VonC, Jul 05 '18 at 13:04
It does, the command (i used @github.com) returned the correct data. — Michael.Medvedskiy, Jul 05 '18 at 13:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '18 at 20:04

If eval $(ssh-agent -s) (without quotes) does not yield better result (as seen here), don't forget that the SSH agent is needed only for private SSH keys protected with a passphrase.

For testing, try the same command in a git bash launched after setting a simplified PATH for Git:

set PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
set GH=C:\path\to\git
set PATH=%GH%\bin;%GH%\usr\bin;%GH%\mingw64\bin;%PATH%

set PATH=%PATH%;/path/to/ThreadScope/bin

This is not the case here, and ssh -T git@github.com returns the expected "Welcome" message, which validates your authentication.

So you can ignore that ssh-agent step, and simply proceed with the rest of your work: git clone git@github.com:anAccount/aRepo, ...

ssh-add creates Error connecting to agent: Connection timed out (Windows 10)

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