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muc81
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2 months ago
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SSH Bookmarks - broken on macOS

Hi, spent half a day on getting my (around 15) SSH keys and config sorted out. No success, at least not in "the way it's meant to be" by 1Password. I'm pretty sure I did everything correctly (all o...
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    muc81
    2 months ago

    Heureka!

    Just a few more hours and it works. Key paragraph in docs (ideally to be reworked) https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh/bookmarks/#use-the-configuration-file.

    • Include must be on top of ~/.ssh/config
    • followed by Agent
    • followed by Host definitions

    Example (this would have helped me tremendously):

    # use 1Password to manage ssh key assignment to logins (ssh bookmarks)
Include "~/.ssh/1Password/config"

# use 1Password as Identity Agent
Host *
  IdentityAgent "~/Library/Group Containers/2BUA8C4S2C.com.1password/t/agent.sock"
  # IdentityAgent "~/.1password/agent.sock"

###
###  Home Assistant
###

Host homeassistant
  HostName homeassistant.local
  User root
  Port 222     # using a non-standard port

    In 1Password define the custom url field:

    url
ssh://homeassistant

    And by the way, this also addresses the question of how to use a different port than 22/tcp for ssh connection.

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artooro
Occasional Contributor
2 months ago

Glad that worked for you, but it's not an acceptable solution. If you have a team with hundreds of SSH servers, you can't depend on a static ssh config file being kept up to date. It needs to be fully integrated with 1Password.