Starting ssh-agent on Windows 10 fails unable to start ssh-agent service error 1058

Question

When I try to start the ssh-agent on Windows 10 via PowerShell  with elevated right or without  by entering Start-Service ssh-agent I get the error     unable to start ssh-agent service  error  1058   When I check of the service is running via Get-Service ssh-agent is returns that the service is stopped   How can I get the ssh-agent running

User · Accepted Answer

I solved the problem by changing the StartupType of the ssh-agent to Manual via Set-Service ssh-agent -StartupType Manual.

Then I was able to start the service via Start-Service ssh-agent or just ssh-agent.exe.

User · Answer

Yeah  as others have suggested  this error seems to mean that ssh-agent is installed but its service  on windows  hasn t been started  You can check this by running in Windows PowerShell   gt  Get-Service ssh-agent  And then check the output of status is not running  Status   Name               DisplayName ------   ----               ----------- Stopped  ssh-agent          OpenSSH Authentication Agent  Then check that the service has been disabled by running  gt  Get-Service ssh-agent   Select StartType  StartType --------- Disabled  I suggest setting the service to start manually  This means that as soon as you run ssh-agent  it ll start the service  You can do this through the Services GUI or you can run the command in admin mode    gt  Get-Service -Name ssh-agent   Set-Service -StartupType Manual  Alternatively  you can set it through the GUI if you prefer

User · Answer

I get the same error in Cygwin  I had to install the openssh package in Cygwin Setup    The strange thing was that all ssh-  commands were valid   bash could execute as program  but the openssh package wasn t installed

[ssh] Starting ssh-agent on Windows 10 fails: "unable to start ssh-agent service, error :1058"

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