MadLittleMods/cmder-restart-ssh-agent.md

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    Sometimes the Cmder SSH agent seems to be borked and anything you try to connect to just rejects. I often run into this when running an Ansible command on a remote host
ssh root@xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
root@xx.xxx.xxx.xxx: Permission denied (publickey).
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

Fix
Just kill the ssh-agent.exe processes (Task Manager works just fine),

Then restart the SSH agent,
$ start-ssh-agent
Removing old ssh-agent sockets
Starting ssh-agent:  done