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Keychain Error: Problem adding; giving up
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Getting an error after migrating to a new system when adding private keys to ssh-agent | |
/usr/bin/keychain -q --nogui $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.key | |
* Error: Problem adding; giving up | |
Manually adding the key shows a permission problem | |
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.key | |
chmod 700 /home/pwi/.ssh/*.key | |
In .bashrc | |
/usr/bin/keychain -q --nogui $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa1.key | |
/usr/bin/keychain -q --nogui $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa2.key | |
source $HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh |
killing and restarting ssh-agent helped for me too. never had this error before though, strange
i get this error more often last 2 days.
It is weird.
i use WSL too.
Same here, another wsl user, the following saved me:
eval `ssh-agent -k`
eval `ssh-agent -s`
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for me killing ssh-agent helped. I'm using wsl2 with windows 11