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apple add ssh key and password to keychain

Harris bin Khurram answered on August 23, 2022 Popularity 6/10 Helpfulness 5/10

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In the latest version of MacOS (12.0 Monterey), just do this once:

$ ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/[your-private-key]


Or in versions of MacOS older than 12.0 Monterey, use:

$ ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/[your-private-key]


In that .ssh/config file, add the following lines:

 Host *
   UseKeychain yes
   AddKeysToAgent yes
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Change ~/.ssh/id_rsa to the actual filename of your private key. If you have other private keys in your ~/.ssh directory, also add an IdentityFile line for each of them. For example, I have one additional line that reads IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 for a 2nd private key.

The UseKeychain yes is the key part, which tells SSH to look in your OSX keychain for the





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