Basic SSH Agent on Powershell

These are my notes to use ssh agent on powershell because I need agent forward feature when use ssh

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• Commands
  • Get status
  • Change startup type
  • Start service
  • Add ssh public key to agent
  • Check Github

Commands

Get status

Get-Service -Name ssh-agent

Change startup type

Set-Service -Name ssh-agent -StartupType Manual

Start service

Start-Service -Name ssh-agent

Add ssh public key to agent

ssh-add path/to/ssh_public_key

ssh-add -L

Check Github

ssh -T [email protected]

I will get Hi your-username! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

Then configure ./ssh/config to use forward agent and finally ssh to the server.