#Com openssh ssh agent plist how to#
#Com openssh ssh agent plist mac os x#
#Com openssh ssh agent plist upgrade#

Here is the script I use and a way to wrap it up and make in look and act as a Finder application. 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.

#Com openssh ssh agent plist upgrade#

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.

#Com openssh ssh agent plist how to#

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. There are tons of articles how to do it, but all described methods doesn't work on Big Sur.The first Internet application I ever used was Fetch, a FTP-client for the Mac. How can I set environment variable on Mac OS Big Sur ? And file created! So, it means that code works, but on the boot, in any session SSH_AUTH_SOCK is steel doesn't set (without usage of.

I did it to check whether code on plist file work at all. Meanwhile, as you can see, I added a piece of code which create file in home dir and add current date there. I created another plist file and executed there the following code: export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.ssh/agent.sock launchctl setenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK ~/.ssh/agent.sock date>~/test_set_env

The issue comes when I want to use ssh agent in some GUI applications. I added export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.ssh/agent.sock to. All I need further is just set environment variable SSH_SOCK_AUTH and ssh agent works as I expect. For this purpose I unloaded -agent launchd and created my own custom plist file. I need to use OpennSSH SSH agent instead of default Mac OS SSH agent.