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Manaburner
Super Contributor
4 years ago

Support for SSH certificates in the 1Password SSH agent

I tried using a SSH certificate (not SSH key) with 1Password on Windows, but authentication did not succeed on the server (too many failures). I imported my private key and then tried to authenticate...
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Former Member
3 years ago

Hello, and thank you for your question!

SSH agents are only ever aware of the private key. This means that they never touch the public key, or certificate.
The good news is that means your certificates should work just fine! The private key needs to be loaded into 1Password, but the certifcate can sit on your filesystem in the usual place.

Depending on the name of your certificate file, you may need to specify the certificate path. Either with the -i flag to an ssh command, or using the CertificateFile configuration option.

Let me know if that works or you have any other questions!