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kzolnowski
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

ssh-agent stopped working

Hi, After last nigthly update ssh-agent stopped working with error: sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed for ED25519 "SSH key ed25519 private" from agent: agent refused operation Here's a log...
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Former Member's avatar
Former Member
4 years ago

I had the same issue, it happened on some machines and not others. Tracking back from the reference to no GUI info available to determine top level parent
 I managed to find the cause.

I had


ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/%r@%h:%p.sock
ControlPersist yes

configured in my .ssh/config for the server. This means the connection is kept open as a socket and the terminal uses that meaning on reauth process.

The side effect was that this broke the 1Password SSH Agent as the connection didn't have a GUI attached. Removing this configuration meant everything worked correctly again.