Start ssh-agent service on Windows 10

• To check if ssh-agent service is running:

  Get-Service ssh-agent

  You will see the status of the service. For example:

  Status   Name               DisplayName
  ------   ----               -----------
  Stopped  ssh-agent          OpenSSH Authentication Agent

• If the status is Stopped, we need to change the StartupType to Manual: open Powershell as administrator and execute the command below:

  Get-Service -Name ssh-agent | Set-Service -StartupType Manual

  or simply do

  Set-Service ssh-agent -StartupType Manual

• Now we can start the ssh-agent service:

  ssh-agent -s

  in Powershell or

  eval $(ssh-agent -s)

  in Git-Bash. We can now check the status should be Running

see also

• Could not open a connection to your authentication agent