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stoutZero
3 months agoNew Contributor
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...
- 3 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.
floris_1P
1Password Team
3 months agoHey 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.
stoutZero
3 months agoNew Contributor
Yep! That works!
Right now there are no ssh private keys on disk, which is exactly what I wanted.
Thanks.