The problem is resolved by removing this line from the playbook: sudo: yes When sudo is run on the remote host, the environment variables set by ssh during login are no longer available. In particular, SSH_AUTH_SOCK, which “identifies the path of a UNIX-domain socket used to communicate with the agent” is no longer visible so … Read more
There’s an excellent gist by Martijn Vermaat, which addresses your problem in great depth, although it is intended for screen users, so I’m adjusting it for tmux here. To summarize: create ~/.ssh/rc if it doesn’t exist yet, and add the following content: #!/bin/bash # Fix SSH auth socket location so agent forwarding works with tmux. … Read more
Please go through this article. You may find this very useful: https://web.archive.org/web/20210506080335/https://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh Just in case the above link vanishes some day, I am capturing the main piece of the solution below: This solution from Joseph M. Reagle by way of Daniel Starin: Add this following to your .bash_profile SSH_ENV=”$HOME/.ssh/agent-environment” function start_agent { echo “Initialising new … Read more
A solution would be to force the key files to be kept permanently, by adding them in your ~/.ssh/config file: IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gitHubKey IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_buhlServer If you do not have a ‘config’ file in the ~/.ssh directory, then you should create one. It does not need root rights, so simply: nano ~/.ssh/config …and enter the lines … Read more
Once you have started the SSH agent with: eval $(ssh-agent) Do either: To add your private key to it: ssh-add This will ask you your passphrase just once, and then you should be allowed to push, provided that you uploaded the public key to Github. To add and save your key permanently on macOS: ssh-add … Read more
Did You Start ssh-agent? You might need to start ssh-agent before you run the ssh-add command: eval `ssh-agent -s` ssh-add Note that this will start the agent for msysgit Bash on Windows. If you’re using a different shell or operating system, you might need to use a variant of the command, such as those listed … Read more