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Restart ssh-agent in Cmder
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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
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This does not work with the latest versions of Cmder.

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