Karcsesz  Feb 26

Today on "How is this the state of the art!?": ssh-agent

I just learned that you may get locked out of your server due to too many authentication requests because the ssh-agent protocol has zero provisions for prefiltering keys and just blindly tries everything in your database until one of them goes through.

Is there a security reason why ssh can't send the host's hash to the agent to tell it what server it should return the key for?

#sshAgent #ssh

Patrick Dec 15
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Lovely console emulator package for Windows

https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder

#1ospd #opensource #cplusplus #cmder #colorscheme #commandline #conemu #mintty #portable #powershell #shell #sshagent #windows
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Khürt WilliamsOct 23

How I Finally Started Using 1Password as My SSH Key Vault

I've used 1Password since 2008. When they released the SSH Agent feature, I ignored it for years. Not because it looked bad, but because I didn't trust it. This sounds ridiculous when I say it out loud. I trusted 1Password with my bank passwords, my email passwords, my entire digital life. But SSH keys? Those felt different. More critical somehow. I worried about getting locked out of servers. I worried about the integration breaking. I worried about problems I couldn't even name […]

https://islandinthenet.com/how-i-finally-started-using-1password-as-my-ssh-key-vault-and-why-it-took-me-so-long/

How I Finally Started Using 1Password as My SSH Key Vault - Island in the Net

I’ve used 1Password since 2008. When they released the SSH Agent feature, I ignored it for years. Not because it looked bad, but because I didn’t trust it. This sounds ridiculous when I…

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Mathias PanzenböckSep 10, 2025
The current #TuxedoOS update broke a lot! It reset a lot of my #KDE configurations, changed the UI scaling around, doubled the size of the cursor, has sometimes graphical glitches when resizing a window and more importantly it now opens a popup that requests a password when you do ssh-add!? What is that? I already entered the encryption password on the shell. How do I get rid of that!? #ssh #Linux #sshagent #sshadd
Rainer "friendica" SokollJun 30, 2025

TIL I learned #Bitwarden can act as #ssh-agent.

bitwarden.com/help/ssh-agent/

Stéphane KleinJun 10, 2025

« J'ai découvert le support SSH agent de Bitwarden et ses conséquences sur l'utilisation de Age »

https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-06-10_1056/

#TIL #ssh #sshagent #Age #devKit

J'ai découvert le support SSH agent de Bitwarden et ses conséquences sur l'utilisation de Age - Jardin numérique de Stéphane Klein

J'ai découvert le support SSH agent de Bitwarden et ses conséquences sur l'utilisation de Age

Peter N. M. HansteenMay 6, 2025
ssh: listener sockets relocated from /tmp to ~/.ssh/agent https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250506044643 #openbsd #ssh #openssh #security #unveil #sshagent #snoopresistant #freesoftware #libresoftware
ssh: listener sockets relocated from /tmp to ~/.ssh/agent

samurroAug 2, 2024
Can somebody recommend me alternatives to #keychain for storing ssh passphrases. Please no DE dependent solutions. #linux #cli #SSH #sshagent
bashfulrobot / Dustin KrysakJul 27, 2024
Too many issues. Can someone recommend a gnome-keyring alternative (besides kwallet) that works well in a #hyprland / #wayland environment with #sshagent? And actually remembers keys/password? Would need to be unlocked with #sddm and I will be using it on #nixos.
Zelphir KaltstahlJun 12, 2024

TIL: SSH agent needs public keys, otherwise it will keep asking you over and over again for the decryption secret of your SSH keys: https://serverfault.com/a/958248

Can you imagine the pain of trying to run some deployment jobs and being asked a hundred times for your secret? Yikes.

#ssh #sshagent #publickey

SSH ignores key in agent and keeps asking for key decryption password

In my ssh_config, I have configured SSH to use a specific key when connecting to a host. I want SSH to try only this key, not any other key it may find (in ssh agent or some other location), so I

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