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I'm trying to set up gpg-agent as the common authentication agent under Windows. It works fine for both Putty and regular gpg use, but now I'd like to use it as ssh-agent in git bash as well.
From what I've gathered, it should be sufficient to use
export GPG_AUTH_SOCK=~/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh
export GPG_AGENT_PID=$$
I can't use the real agent PID here, because the abstraction layer will hide processes outside the msys environment, so I use the shell's PID.
The gpg agent has been started with the enable-ssh-support and enable-putty-support options, and the agent socket is properly created. However, ssh-add claims that it cannot connect to the agent.
What is the correct way to introduce the running gpg-agent as the ssh agent into a new git bash?
Simon Richter
Posted 2015-05-06T15:36:41.657
Reputation: 2 384
How are you starting/launching this "new git bash"? – Eduardo – 2015-11-10T16:30:39.673
Either way behaves the same -- context menu on folder, start menu, ... I get the same behaviour running git from cmd.exe directly (in which case I use
setto create the environment variables). – Simon Richter – 2015-11-10T17:15:26.903@SimonRichter, did you make any progress with this? I've been trying to start the gpg-agent daemon through git bash on Windows, but it fails miserable with: ERR 67109139 Unknown IPC command <GPG Agent>. Did you get that error too? – dSebastien – 2017-11-28T14:37:30.330