ssh-agent fails unless Sourcetree is ran as Administrator

[Joel Santos]

I'm running the latest versions of Sourcetree 3.4.8.0, Git 2.35.1.2, on Windows 11, with Windows OpenSSH. SourceTree is set to use external GIT and OpenSSH

When I open Sourcetree, and every time I close the Options Dialog, I get this error message

Unless I run Sourcetree as Admin, but obviously is quite annoying to get the UAC every time I run Sourcetree. Is that the intended behaviour?

Using Putty/Pageant doesn't trigger the error (as it doesn't rely in OpenSSH) but there's no difference in running external or embedded Git, both require ST to be run in Admin mode

[Taner Bilir]

I ran into this problem and found that it was because my .ssh folder was under a different Windows User.  Accessing the .ssh folder in the other user directory was the issue.  Once I copied the .ssh folder to my current user directory, everything worked as expected.