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Can I make Magit add my ssh passphrase to ssh-agent instead ask me to use the passphrase a single time?

Every time I push a commit to my remote I need to type my passphrase or instead run M-& ssh-add PATH_TO_MY_CREDENTIAL to add it to my ssh-agent.

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    What OS are you running? How are you starting ssh-agent?
    – npostavs
    Mar 21, 2018 at 14:20
  • I'm running Ubuntu, I don't know exactly how ssh-agent was starting, but when I run ssh-add CREDENTIAL I don't need to type my password again.
    – squiter
    Mar 21, 2018 at 16:42

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You can use the ssh-agency package for this. It integrates with magit, and will run ssh-add as needed when you push. If you don't have ssh-askpass installed, you will need a version which includes this fix (pushed Apr 4, 2018) to successfully prompt for a passphrase on a Unixish system.

Note: I'm the author of this package.

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  • I don't know if it requires a little of configuration, but it doesn't work for me... I installed using MELPA and add (require 'ssh-agency). Then I did the test and the result was the same that I described in my question.
    – squiter
    Mar 22, 2018 at 13:02
  • Ideally it shouldn't require any configuration. What's the result of echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK, echo $SSH_AUTH_PID, and ssh-add -l; echo $? in a terminal; (getenv "SSH_AUTH_SOCK"), and (ssh-agency-status) in Emacs?
    – npostavs
    Mar 22, 2018 at 13:33
  • echo $SSH_AUTH_PID : /tmp/ssh-OfgrvDM7CUHq/agent.1750 same result of (getenv "SSH_AUTH_SOCK"), now the echo $SSH_AUTH_PID returns nothing, ssh-add -l;echo $? returns "The agent has no identities." and "1", (ssh-agency-status) has returned no-keys. Before run this comands I tried to push commits im my remote twice and all the time it requested me my passphrase.
    – squiter
    Mar 22, 2018 at 19:18
  • Oh, I just realized I overlooked something, is PATH_TO_MY_CREDENTIAL some non-standard path (i.e., not one of ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.ssh/id_dsa, ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa, or ~/.ssh/id_ed25519)? If so, you need to customize ssh-agency-keys.
    – npostavs
    Mar 22, 2018 at 19:45
  • But I think the content of ssh-agency-keys is right! When I get the variable content, it shows ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa_gateway. And this is the current keys I have in this host.
    – squiter
    Mar 23, 2018 at 12:26

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