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XIII
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4 years ago

Advantage of 1Password SSH agent on macOS?

Before reading the documentation I was wondering how the 1Password SSH agent would be an improvement to my current setup (the default agent with the keys’ passphrases stored in the macOS keychain). ...
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ag_andrew
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4 years ago

That's exactly correct. You would store your keys as SSH Key items in your Personal vault, and the 1Password SSH agent will prompt you for authorization and then sign requests with your available keys.

You won't need to store the ssh key files on your disk.