ssh-agent | zsh ssh agent plugin | SSH Utils library

Git is throwing below error when trying to run the command

Set-Up: Windows 10, Msys2 in ConEmu, fish shell

I want to run ssh-agent and share it between the shells, which isn't the problem per se. setting $SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable globally or even using an ~/.ssh/environment file would work.

However whatever shell I started first will be the owner of the ssh-agent process and close when I close that terminal window. At first I thought this was the answer: https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Setting-up-SSHd/ But sshd != ssh-agent .. dooh

So I was wondering if it would make sense and work if I used that script as a basis and made one to setup running ssh-agent as a cygrunsrv service.

I'm running into the problem, that ssh-agent sockets are owned by the uid which created it and can only be used by that uid and superuser.

Running msys2 with admin privileges doesn't seem to satisfy the "superuser" requirement.

Does this just simply not work? And if so, what's the alternative? I'm not really inclined to have one conemu shell open at all times and being careful not to close it.

Using one ssh-agent per shell is also not really something I enjoy considering, since I'd have to retype the password for my private keys every time.

I have 2 accounts , one is for personal use and another one is for professional usage. Now to work with multiple github accounts I have to perform these steps ,

1. Generating the SSH keys
2. Adding the new SSH key to the corresponding GitHub account
3. Registering the new SSH Keys with the ssh-agent
4. Creating the SSH config File
5. One active SSH key in the ssh-agent at a time

Now the account that I am using for professional usage is shared with 5 more people , i.e we are using same credential.

Now my question is , If I perform those above tasks(1-5), then will they face any error while pushing or fetching repository? If yes then how to bypass the issue?

Thanks and regards

after buying a Yubikey 5 NFC for technical interest (firmware 5.2.7) and setting up FIDO2 authentication where possible, I ran into the problem that I could no longer connect to my GitLab server via SmartGit because the second factor is not requested and therefore I can't connect to the server.

I then decided to deal with it on Windows 10 via Git Bash and SSH. Unfortunately, the documentation here assumes a lot of prior knowledge and I am an absolute beginner on the subject. In the meantime I managed to connect to the server with Git Bash and SSH using a locally generated SSH certificate.

Now I would like to use the Yubikey instead of the certificate stored locally on the computer. Unfortunately, all instructions (e.g. this one https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent#generating-a-new-ssh-key-for-a-hardware-security-key) lead to the same error message for me:

When I compile my project in Github Actions(bundle exec fastlane beta),shows this error:

I generated the ssh pub key and private key and register pub key to my github. And add the private key by using this

I'm developing a Github app that needs to be able to clone Github repositories whenever a push event occurs.

I've successfully set everything up including the server and can clone repositories using using access tokens however I'm having some trouble with repositories that have submodules.

I find that using git clone --recurse-submodules https://x-access-token:@github.com/owner/repo.git doesn't work if repo.git has submodules configured with SSH. Is there an easy way to perform recursive submodule fetching with access tokens?

I tried another approach which involved using the pivate key .pem file for my github app as an SSH identity. This involved running ssh-agent bash -c 'ssh-add /path/to/private-key.pem; git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:owner/repo.git' but that ended up with a Permission denied (publickey) error which makes sense since the .pem file isn't meant to have access to repositories, just to authenticate the github app.

What is the right way to perform recursive submodule cloning/fetching when writing a Github app?

I've built an Azure Static Web App with one API function which has one dependency. This dependency sits in a private repository on GitHub. On my local dev machine I'm able to build the Functions app by downloading the dependency using SSH authentication. When trying to deploy to Azure using GitHub Actions I get the error Host key verification failed.

My GitHub Actions workflow is similar to the default workflow generated by Azure Static Web App, with the addition of using webfactory/ssh-agent for facilitating the SSH authentication on GitHub to retrieve the private repository Y and a run step with git clone for testing purposes:

I am trying to add an ssh key to the git ssh-agent in windows, from powershell. However, when I add it it adds it to the regular SSH agent but not the git one. I read this stackoverflow answer of it using a different SSH-agent. I tried starting the agent running C:\Program Files\Git\cmd> .\start-ssh-agent.cmd and it starts properly however when i try to do any ssh-add commands I get the error:

Error connecting to agent: No such file or directory

All the docs I have found is of adding the key to the .ssh file and then starting the ssh agent. is there a way to get files outside that directory in the Git SSH agent?