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SSH Agent breaks username/password SSH Authentication
Starting recently, 1Password broke SSH for servers that use basic username/password authentication. These servers do not have credentials in 1Password and I don't want to store them in 1Password.
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floris_1P
1Password Team
1Password TeamHow keys are matched with hosts happens on the SSH client side, rather than the SSH agent side. If your hosts are dynamic, here are some tricks that might help you:
If there is a common static part in the hosts, like a domain, you can use a wildcard * in your SSH config:
Host *.mydomain.com
PreferredAuthentications password
Or if you're always connecting to these hosts using a certain script, you can add the option inline:
ssh -o 'PreferredAuthentications=password' user@host
