Reading keys from OpenSSH auth agent on Windows with Paramiko is failing with "[Errno 22] Invalid argument: '\\\\.\\pipe\\openssh-ssh-agent'"

Question

I am using simple function to list out all RSA keys using paramiko.agent.Agent().get_keys() function. But there is weird error:

[Errno 22] Invalid argument: '\\.\pipe\openssh-ssh-agent'

Also OpenSSH server is running

from paramiko import agent

print(agent.Agent().get_keys())

Error message:

My local version of OpenSSH is:

OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.9p1, LibreSSL 3.4.3

Answer 1

paramiko==2.10.3 is having an issue with connecting to OpenSSH authentication agent on Windows machine.

I upgraded it to paramiko==2.11.1 and it solved my problem. Now this version is not throwing any error like Invalid argument: '\\\\.pipe\\openssh-ssh-agent'