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Former Member
4 years ago

[wayland] signign failed: agent refused operation

After enabling the ssh agent (with or without the key name option) and editing ~/.ssh/config , I tried the suggested command and got the following output (without any prompt from 1password). 1passwo...
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Former Member
4 years ago

Having run into this myself, it's potentially because you do not have a polkit authentication agent installed or running. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit#Authentication_agents for more details.

I ended up picking polkit-gnome and just make sure that I start /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 in the background before attempting to use the SSH Agent.

See if starting one of those authentication agents helps your situation.