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why can't I connect to my ssh server UNLESS I enter eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" first?
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I didn't really follow the former part, but I can give you this:
strace -o logfile -f ssh -p 8322 [email protected] of when I get blank
Please don't ignore the advice about SSH_AGENT_SOCK. It'll tell yoy what's going on (but not why).
At the end of the log you find:
meaning it's trying to interact with the ssh-agent, but it (finally) doesn't give a response.
Use the
lsof
command to figure out which program is providing the agent service and try to resolve issue that way. If it's not the OpenSSH ssh-agent, then maybe you can disable its ssh-agent functionality and use real ssh-agent in its place..My wild guess is that the program might be trying to interactively verify the use of the key from you, but it is not succeeding in doing that for some reason.
I am not sure I "solved" this but when I add this to my startup script for my terminal (~/.zshrc):
it works then. I am not sure I'm still using the ssh agent, but at least it also does not cache my passphrase/private key
Do you have that file? If not, then
unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK
will work just as well.If it does exist, then I suppose it has good chances of working correctly :).
ssh-add -l
will try to use that socket and list your keys in the service (or list nothing if there are no keys, but it would still work without error).