SSH-Agent installed through MSI is missing required privileges

[bagajjal]

This problem is specific to MSI installation only.

Problem statement
If you install the V8.9 through MSI then ssh-agent doesn't have all the required privileges. This effects the FIDO / PKCS11 scenarios because the ssh-agent fails to create ssh-sk-helper.exe / ssh-pkcs11-helper.exe.

Work around
Please use zip payload for installation instead of MSI package.

Code snippets
Install-sshd.ps1 has the required privileges. Code here.

MSI is missing the required privileges. Code here

[shareefj]

@bagajjal This fix only seems to be present in the 32-bit MSI. Running the 64-bit installer results in the same error.

[crrodriguez]

have the same issue as @shareefj , win64 msi does not set proper privileges and the agent is unable to work.. which command exactly should I use to fix it ?

[tgauth]

can run the following in a command prompt or PowerShell:
sc.exe privs ssh-agent SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege/SeTcbPrivilege/SeBackupPrivilege/SeRestorePrivilege/SeImpersonatePrivilege