TortoiseGit keeps asking for SSH passphrase

Question

I have seen a few questions about this issue but I have not got things to work.

I have TortoiseGit installed on a new PC.

It is setup to use TortoisePlink.exe and I have the correct public/private keys setup on my computer and with BitBucket.

I can push content w/o problems to the remote server but I keep getting a popup window from Pageant asking for my passphrase.

Please note that it is the first time I do a push after switching on the computer. Once it has been entered, I don't have to do it again in that Windows session.

When my computer starts, Pageant does NOT start. If I manually start Pageant there is NO keys listed.

I thought I could suppress that?

Did you try one of those https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8846972/tortoisegit-asking-password#8848529 — Hackerman, Jun 19 '17 at 16:05
@Hackerman Thanks for that. Why should I need to change it to `ssh.exe` though? I thought the setup I have should work. — Andrew Truckle, Jun 19 '17 at 16:28
It seems that `ssh.exe` can remember the password(you just have to enter the password for the first time) — Hackerman, Jun 19 '17 at 16:29

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '17 at 10:09

Yor SSH key is encrypted, and thus, it needs to be decrypted for usage. This can either be done for

every connection by putty, plink or tortoise(git)plink,
every Pageant session (pageant caches the unencrypted key in memory, so that you don't need to re-enter it again and again),
ever, by using PuttyGen and storing the ssh key unencrypted (then, however, if it gets stolen, an attacker can directly use it).

(Based on my answer on the TortoiseGit issue tracker https://gitlab.com/tortoisegit/tortoisegit/issues/3004#note_33383409)

TortoiseGit keeps asking for SSH passphrase

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