PuTTY SSH authentication agent

Everything through to Step 5.6 where you might encounter a slight snag. If an SSH agent is already be running you could get the following error message when you restart bashCould not open a connection to your authentication agent If you do, use the following command to see if more than one ssh-agent process is runningps aux | grep ssh If you see more than one ssh-agent service, you will need to kill all of these processes. Use the kill command as follows (the PID will be unique on your computer)killExample:kill 1074 After you have removed all of the ssh-agent processes, run the px aux | grep ssh command again to be sure they are gone, then restart Bash.Voila, you should now get something like this:Initializing new SSH agent... succeeded Enter passphrase for /c/Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa:

PuTTY SSH public key

PuTTY SSH Manager

PuTTY SSH settings

PuTTY SSH with key authentication

PuTTY SSH authentication