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paspeur
New Contributor
2 years ago

The agent has no identities

I have the 1Password SSH client running and can access the two SSH keys I've stored in 1Password: % SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.1password/agent.sock ssh-add -l 256 SHA256:... (ED25519) 256 SHA256:... (ED...
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Michael_Mercuri's avatar
Michael_Mercuri
Frequent Contributor
2 years ago

I'm pretty this is how ssh-add works. It requires SSH_AUTH_SOCK to be set. The ~/.ssh/config file is generally used by the ssh client, but not by other tools such as ssh-add.

See man ssh-add for more details:

The authentication agent must be running and the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable must contain the name of its socket for ssh-add to work.

fwiw, I always set SSH_AUTH_SOCK.