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There are ways to include them in ~/.MacOSX/ist, that the Finder can read, but I find it easier to just start the application via the shell itself instead. Applications that you launch in the Finder can’t see the normal shell variables, like the ones ssh-agent sets. Convenient and secure, warmly recommended. I use Keychain from Gentoo Linux as a front-end to ssh-agent.

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I got a new licens for upgrade price, nice. Now I’m back with Fetch, it nowadays have support for SFTP as well as SSH keys and ssh-agent. The other problem is that it doesn’t support ssh-agent so you need to enter the password for your keys every time (unless you save it in your keychain). The biggest problem is that it is slow, I mean really slow! Slow interface and slow transfers. I like Cyberducks interface a lot! I would still willingly use it if it was not for two big drawbacks. I therefor moved to Cyberduck, a open source browser for FTP and SFTP. The PowerPC version worked on my new Intel-Mac but it was a bit slow and used more memory since in must run under Rosetta emulation. A Intel-version was released but it has a number of bugs, editing remote files don’t work e.g. I used it for many years but unfortunately development stopped in 2006. A really nice open source GUI for SFTP/SCP with good support for SSH keys and ssh-agent. It was then that I found some early version of Fugu. I used different script to upload and download files via SCP.

COM OPENSSH SSH AGENT PLIST MAC OS X

This continued up until around 2001-2002 when security aspects made me want to move from the FTP protokoll to encrypted connections with SFTP/SCP.īy this time I was running Mac OS X and had easy access to the commandline OpenSSH. When I started to make homepages in 1995 I used Fetch to upload the HTML files and images to the web server. When we are talking about Internet applications that is maybe not ancient but certainly very old. The first version of Fetch (Wikipedia link) was released 1989.

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The IT-staff at the University showed me how to use it for downloading shareware and freeware from Info-Mac and other places. This was in the early 1990s, before the web. Run launchctl print gui/$(id -u)/ first Internet application I ever used was Fetch, a FTP-client for the Mac. Run launchctl print gui/$(id -u)/-agent you could see output like this: I guess agents under /L/L is launched after /S/L/L so it override the environment variable set by system ssh-agent.

Manually copy the plist into /Library/LaunchAgents works like a charm and do not interfere with system -agent. It placed the environment variable correctly but that's kinda environment pollution because it declared an SSH_AUTH_SOCK owned by root that nobody could ever access. If I run sudo brew services start ssh-askpass instead, the plist is copied to /Library/LaunchDaemons which launched as root instead of one instance per user. So the environment variables is NOT injected properly. I guess agents under this directory is launched after Finder or whatever GUI things.

The launchd plist is put into ~/Library/LaunchAgents. If I run brew services start ssh-askpass. In Mojave from what i can tell, the brew services cannot provide the functionality that this utility needs. The main point is, how to set the correct SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_ASKPASS globally.

Sudo cp /usr/local/opt/ssh-askpass/ /Library/LaunchAgents

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