Fix for “ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.”

You might have tried adding a key with:

ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa

only to get this error:

ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.[/code]
If this happens, it is because your ssh agent is not running in the terminal.

Run this:
exec ssh-agent bash
which will cause it to resource your .bashrc files and start the agent.
Now try readding the key again:
ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa
Identity added: .ssh/id_rsa (.ssh/id_rsa)
 
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