ssh-agent service stop starting at login on Mac OS 10.11

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I'm currently facing a little issue about the ssh-agent service. I rebooted my computer today after removing a Boot Camp partition. Since then, ssh-agent no longer starts automatically at login.

I use this agent really often with Git and multiple SSH keys and have not seen a problem like this before. I can't find any errors about ssh-agent in the "Console" application.

How can I check the service configuration? What can I do to make it work again?

shulard

Posted 2016-10-18T17:15:52.110

Reputation: 143

Answers

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They chose to realign macOS behavior (Sierra) with the mainstream OpenSSH. You'll maybe find an explanation to make it work again here:

SSH-agent does not automatically load passphrases on the OSX Sierra keychain during startup

Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as intended based on the following information: That’s expected. We re-aligned our behavior with the mainstream OpenSSH in this area. You can fix this pretty easily by running ssh-add -A in your rc script if you want your keys to always be loaded.

GFaivre

Posted 2016-10-18T17:15:52.110

Reputation: 46

Hello, thank you for the answer... Seems to doesn't be the solution for me. This is my ssh-agent which is not started... All the keys are already loaded correctly but when I ran something like ssh-add -A I receive the message Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. so I must run : eval ssh-agent $SHELL... – shulard – 2016-10-19T15:27:00.877

I haven't found a validation solution for my problem but your article help me a lot :) – shulard – 2016-10-20T14:17:20.403

Finally I found the valid answer here... There was a problem after downloading MacOS Sierra but not installing it... https://superuser.com/questions/1133065/unable-to-write-to-tmp-osx-unable-to-correct-permissions-operation-not-permitt#comment1629612_1133065

– shulard – 2016-10-20T16:21:43.730

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