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Former Member
3 years ago

Authenticate using CLI (non-gui)

I have enabled the 1Password SSH Agent which works fine, apart from one usecase: accessing my computer remotely and then trying to access other SSH hosts. It then prompts for a password using the GUI...
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floris_1P
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3 years ago

What you could do is in your SSH config, enable SSH agent forwarding for the host you're connecting to:


Host myhost
ForwardAgent yes

Then on your target machine, only apply the 1Password socket without an existing SSH connection:

Match host * exec "test -z $SSH_CONNECTION"
IdentityAgent "~/.1password/agent.sock"

If there is an SSH connection, it should pick the forwarded SSH_AUTH_SOCK. If you'd then run an SSH command, you'd get prompted on the original machine.