SSH-AGENT could not open connection

Question

I try to link my SSH key with SSH Agent.

I'm on Windows 7 Pro, and I'm using Git Bash console.

I've this folder structure:

C:\Users\MyName.ssh\id_rsa

Where I've put my SSH key files as follow:

• myname.ssh (about private SSH key)
• myname.pub (about public SSH key)

After this, I launch my SSH Agent like this:

By Git Bash Console: ssh-agent -s

The echo is the follow:

SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-LpOZfV5krHuP/agent.3984; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
SSH:AGENT_PID=6128; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 6128;

Now, if I run my Task Summary I show the ssh_agent.exe as pid 6128 correctly.

Now I try to link my agent with my SSH key as follow:

• The first attempt: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa FAILED

• The second attempt: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa/myname.ssh FAILED

• The third attempt: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa/myname.pub FAILED

• Other attempts: I tried with complete path but always... FAILED

Please if you know my fault, help me.

The error returned:

could not open a connection to your authentication agent

Solution 1

If you are behind a firewall please try this before:

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

Solution 2

You need to execute the output of ssh-agent to apply the changes to your current shell:

eval $(ssh-agent -s)

Comments

[Joe Taras]

Dear, your solution resolve my issue but now I have another error. After this, I launch: git submodule update, but console returns unable to connect to github.com errno = No error

[JaskeyLam]

what should be the url to be?