Comments on: Enable SSH Agent (Key) Forwarding on Snow Leopard

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:45:25 +0000

Alan,
your comment helped me so much.
Been struggling all afternoon with ssh + svn.
That did it for me.

Thanks,
-Jim

By: Coder64

Coder64 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:11:12 +0000

What threw me off was that I was applying for a software trainer position. ,

By: Alan H

Alan H — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:10:35 +0000

John:

You may need to add your passphrases to the Apple keychain. In the terminal, type:

ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Or whatever the path to your private key is. Do this for each key. This will put the passphrase in the Apple keychain and you will not be prompted for passphrases. If you do not have a key in the default file (id_rsa or id_dsa), the Apple mechanisms do not seem to automatically prompt you for your passphrases.

That worked for me.

Best wishes,

Alan

By: John rowen

John rowen — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:02:04 +0000

Hi,

Brief summary of my issues:

From home I conncect using ssh keys (with passwords) to my work desktop(s). From there I connect to some of my work servers. This all worked when my work computers where running 10.5.x
Now that the work computers have been upgraded to 10.6.1, I can connect to the work computers from home, but once I try to connect to a server I get prompted for my passphrase for my key.

I modified my /etc/ssh_config file to read:

Host *
ForwardAgent yes
(note I had the ForwardAgent set correctly, but needed to un-comment the Host *)

I disconnected from from my work computer. Reconnected, but still prompted for my passphrase:
Enter passphrase for key ‘/Users/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa’:

Any suggestions? Do I need to restart the sshd service?

Thanks!!

John

By: curtismchale

curtismchale — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:58:06 +0000

@cass you will need to have a text editor tied into terminal to edit them from the terminal. I have textwrangler setup so I type “edit /etc/ssh_config” and then textwrangler opens. If you use Textmate then the normal command is “mate /etc/ssh_config”

By: cass

cass — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:01:57 +0000

i’m unfamiliar with terminal. how do I change the lines? terminal? I apologize for the ignorance.

thanks

mritel.