Ssh-agent works, ssh-add doesn't

[waeking]

I have added both new and old pub keys to authourized_keys on the router.
I can’t seem to get the new key to add in garuda. I have forgotten how I added the last one.

 ╰─λ   ssh-agent
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXXXXXl8HN8c/agent.3432; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
SSH_AGENT_PID=3433; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 3433;

 ╭─jeremy@jeremy in ~ took 3ms
 ╰─λ   ssh-add -l
Error connecting to agent: No such file or directory

eval "$(ssh-agent)"
fish: Unsupported use of '='. In fish, please use 'set SSH_AUTH_SOCK /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXjzeZQb/agent.4713'.

eval $(ssh-agent)
fish: Unsupported use of '='. In fish, please use 'set SSH_AUTH_SOCK /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXjzeZQb/agent.4713'.

ls
.rw-------  748 jeremy  8 May 11:06  router
.rw-r--r--  275 jeremy  8 May 11:06  router.pub

 ╭─jeremy@jeremy in ~/.ssh took 6ms
[🔴] × ssh-add router
Error connecting to agent: No such file or directory

I found this thread and have gone trough it. In this link there is a fish_ssh_agent that will allow me to get ssh-add -l to work. My github keys are not listed only the new key and the new key will still work even after reboot. Any assistance would be great.

Ssh-add always fails when opening a new terminal

I'm trying to use 'ssh-add' so I don't need to put my ssh key in all the time. I've been using this fine on other distros but for some reason on Garuda it's not working. I thought it was fish at first, so I swapped to zsh, but that doesn't work. Even another terminal emulator with good ol' bash doesn't work. I've looked around for a way to fix it and I can fix it, but only until the terminal is closed. For each new instance I need to get it working again. How do I get ssh-add to work every tim…

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[waeking]

cat ~/.config/fish/conf.d/ssh.fish

alias addssh='eval (ssh-agent -c) && ssh-add ~/.ssh/$1'
alias lssshagent='eval (ssh-agent -c) && ssh-add -L'
alias delssh='eval (ssh-agent -c) && ssh-add -D'

addssh router works
lsssshagent does not list any identities.

lssshagent
The agent has no identities.

I can now log into the router with keys. So I guess this is a win?

[BluishHumility]

A few folks have been hacking around on a tiny script to help run ssh-agent with fish here: Run ssh-agent via fish shell · GitHub

I can't really tell from reading the script if it will help in your case or not, but I thought I would drop it in the thread anyhow just in case.

[waeking]

Thanks, Have you tried any of those scripts. The long one listed there looks very interesting.

[BluishHumility]

I have not tried any of them out actually--so far all of my horsing around with ssh has been in bash.

It seems like that guy wrote the long one to enable running multiple agents. Unless that is something you need, I would probably try this one:

# config.fish
if not pgrep --full ssh-agent | string collect > /dev/null
  eval (ssh-agent -c)
  set -Ux SSH_AGENT_PID $SSH_AGENT_PID
  set -Ux SSH_AUTH_SOCK $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
end

[waeking]

@BluishHumility

if not pgrep --full ssh-agent | string collect > /dev/null
  eval (ssh-agent -c)
  set -Ux SSH_AGENT_PID $SSH_AGENT_PID
  set -Ux SSH_AUTH_SOCK $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
end

I added this to ~/.fish_profile so that if the config for fish is updated this will still run.

ssh-add -L
The agent has no identities.

The good it connects to an ssh-agent. The bad is it still lists no identities after a reboot. I have added another key and can successfully connect to the router.