How to Remove Keys from SourceTree SSH Agent

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I am using SourceTree on Windows. I have SSH keys to validate the server connection. So, when I start Sourcetree it launches the SSH Agent which then asks me for the passwords for each key. That is fine.

However, while I can see an option in SourceTree to "Add SSH Key" I cannot see how to remove one. My actual problem is that, due to a misleading error message, I re-added the key and it now has the same key multiple times and asks for too many passwords at start-up! But, more generally, i would like to be able to list and remove keys from the SSH agent.

I have tried using command line ssh-add but it says

Error connecting to agent: No such file or directory

(Tried this both with windows CMD shell and in the Git bash terminal that SourceTree launches)

I see a running ssh-agent.exe process in Task Manager when SourceTree is running - in the Details tab. But in the Services tab it says the service is stopped. So, I guess SourceTree has started it but how do I connect to it? Alternatively, how to tell SourceTree not to start it's own but use the Windows Service?

I am using the OpenSSH SSH client (in SourceTree options)

windows-10 atlassian-sourcetree ssh-agent
1 Answers

Finally found my own answer. There doesn't appear to be a way to connect to the agent directly, but the keys are stored directly in the SourceTree config. Tools | Options | General | SSH Client Configuration : SSH Key. This field is a semi-colon separated list of paths to the keys to load. I just removed the duplicates from there.

Now have issues getting SourceTree and OpenSSH Agent to co-exist, but that's a different question. At least it only asks me for each password once.

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