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thibaulltt's avatar
thibaulltt
New Contributor
1 year ago

Specify the path to the SSH agent socket ?

Currently, the 1Password ssh agent socket is set to ~/.1Password/agent.sock on Linux, and ~/Library/Group\ Containers/2BUA8C4S2C.com.1password/t/agent.sock on macOS (as per https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh/agent/config).

Would it be possible to modify that path ? It could then be set to respect the $XDG_DATA_HOME variable on Linux, or could be set to a custom path.

I propose using the agent.toml configuration file, and store that path under the following table:

```toml
[ssh-agent]
socket = "$XDG_DATA_HOME/1Password/agent.sock"

The tables below would behave as usual...

[[ssh-keys]]
item = "..."

...

```

1Password Version: 8.10.54
Extension Version: 8.10.55.2
OS Version: Fedora 41
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2 Replies

  • mdylanbell's avatar
    mdylanbell
    New Member
    1 day ago

    Just want to +1 this. I think apps hard-coding paths into user home folder is an antipattern; please allow for customization through env vars and/or the toml file.

    I have had a 1password account for around a decade but just started looking into using 1password for secret and ssh config and this was the first thing I looked for and was disappointed to find path customization was hard coded in this way and not customizable.

  • Michael_Mercuri's avatar
    Michael_Mercuri
    Dedicated Contributor
    1 year ago

    +1 to make this configurable.

    On macOS, I symlink ~/.1Password/agent.sock to the 1Password SSH agent socket to so that this is consistent between macOS and Linux:

    shell
    ln -s ~/Library/Group\ Containers/2BUA8C4S2C.com.1password/t/agent.sock ~/.1password/agent.sock