[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="4.154.0.21"
 subject="finally!"
 date="2013-07-31T16:47:39Z"
 content="""
I've finally been clued in to the cause of this. If a ssh-agent is running, and has been configured to use a ssh key (by running `ssh-add`), this apparently prevents git-annex from using the key it sets up during local pairing. I have reproduced the described bug by this method.

Something similar might also affect adding a remote ssh server, I'm not sure about that yet.


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