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stoutZero
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10 months ago
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1Password ssh agent & ssh key on disk

Hi, I have enabled 1Password ssh agent, and checked that 1Password touch id prompt is showing up & working when I connected to a different machine via ssh.   *Tangent: Why is pasting in this tex...
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  • floris_1P's avatar
    floris_1P
    10 months ago

    Hey stoutZero​, you can in fact use `IdentitiesOnly yes` + `IdentityFile` with the 1Password SSH agent, but then point `IdentityFile` to the public key instead of the private key. The private key can be stored in 1Password with only the .pub file on disk.

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floris_1P
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10 months ago

Hey stoutZero​, you can in fact use `IdentitiesOnly yes` + `IdentityFile` with the 1Password SSH agent, but then point `IdentityFile` to the public key instead of the private key. The private key can be stored in 1Password with only the .pub file on disk.

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    stoutZero
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    10 months ago

    Yep! That works!

    Right now there are no ssh private keys on disk, which is exactly what I wanted.

    Thanks.