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rctneil's avatar
rctneil
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4 years ago

SSH Feature questions

Hi, Just some quick questions about the new SSH feature. I'm assuming that the SSH keys are synced between your machines etc? Is it possible to import existing keys from multiple machine...
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floris_1P
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4 years ago

  1. Correct, the SSH Key item works like any other 1Password item in that sense

  2. Yes, you can use the import functionality for that.

  3. Almost. You would need to turn on the SSH agent in the 1Password preferences on each device, because that setting is local (by design!) and you'll need to make sure your SSH config points to the 1Password agent socket.

  4. Nope! The private keys never leave the 1Password process.

  5. They're not needed anymore by then. We don't automatically remove the private keys from your ~/.ssh directory after importing, so you can do that yourself whenever you're comfortable.