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

March 7, 2013 by ·

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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