Git keeps asking me for my ssh key passphrase

Question

I created keys as instructed in the github tutorial  registered them with github  and tried using ssh-agent explicitly     yet git continues to ask me for my passphrase every time I try to do a pull or a push   What could be the cause

User · Answer

This has been happening to me after restarts since upgrading from OS X El Capitan (10.11) to macOS Sierra (10.12). The ssh-add solution worked temporarily but would not persist across another restart.

The permanent solution was to edit (or create) ~/.ssh/config and enable the UseKeychain option.

Host *
    UseKeychain yes

Related: macOS keeps asking my ssh passphrase since I updated to Sierra

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I would try the following    Start GitBash Edit your    bashrc file Add the following lines to the file     SSH ENV  HOME  ssh environment    start the ssh-agent function start agent       echo  Initializing new SSH agent           spawn ssh-agent      usr bin ssh-agent   sed  s  echo  echo    gt    SSH ENV      echo succeeded     chmod 600   SSH ENV          SSH ENV   gt   dev null      usr bin ssh-add    if   -f    SSH ENV      then          SSH ENV   gt   dev null      ps -ef   grep   SSH AGENT PID    grep ssh-agent   gt   dev null              start agent        else     start agent  fi    Save and close the file Close GitBash Reopen GitBash Enter your passphrase

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If you ve tried ssh-add and you re still prompted to enter your passphrase then try using ssh-add -K  This adds your passphrase to your keychain   Update  if you re using macOS Sierra then you likely need to do another step as the above might no longer work  Add the following to your    ssh config   Host     UseKeychain yes

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Another possible solution that is not mentioned above is to check your remote with the following command   git remote -v   If the remote does not start with git but starts with https you might want to change it to git by following the example below   git remote -v    origin is https   github com user myrepo git git remote set-url origin git github com user myrepo git git remote -v    check if remote is changed

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Try adding this to your    ssh config   Host      AddKeysToAgent yes    UseKeychain yes    IdentityFile    ssh id rsa       assuming your private key is named id rsa

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I try different solutions but nothing help  But this steps  My GitBash SSH environment always asks for my passphrase  what can I do   from Bitbucket com seams works well    The idea is    you create    bashrc file add follow script   SSH ENV  HOME  ssh environment    start the ssh-agent     function start agent       echo  Initializing new SSH agent           spawn ssh-agent      usr bin ssh-agent   sed  s  echo  echo    gt     SSH ENV       echo succeeded     chmod 600    SSH ENV            SSH ENV    gt   dev null      usr bin ssh-add    if   -f    SSH ENV      then           SSH ENV    gt   dev null      ps -ef   grep   SSH AGENT PID    grep ssh-agent   gt   dev null              start agent        else     start agent  fi  re-run Bash

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Once you have started the SSH agent with  eval   ssh-agent   Do either   To add your private key to it   ssh-add  This will ask you your passphrase just once  and then you should be allowed to push  provided that you uploaded the public key to Github   To add and save your key permanently on macOS   ssh-add -K    This will persist it after you close and re-open it by storing it in user s keychain   To add and save your key permanently on Ubuntu  or equivalent     ssh-add    ssh id rsa

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For Windows or Linux users  a possible solution is described on GitHub Docs  which I report below for your convenience  You can run ssh-agent automatically when you open bash or Git shell  Copy the following lines and paste them into your    profile or    bashrc file  env    ssh agent env  agent load env      test -f  quot  env quot   amp  amp     quot  env quot   gt    dev null      agent start           umask 077  ssh-agent  gt    quot  env quot          quot  env quot   gt    dev null      agent load env    agent run state  0 agent running w  key  1 agent w o key  2  agent not running agent run state   ssh-add -l  gt    dev null 2 gt  amp 1  echo      if      quot  SSH AUTH SOCK quot          agent run state   2    then     agent start     ssh-add elif    quot  SSH AUTH SOCK quot     amp  amp     agent run state   1    then     ssh-add fi  unset env  If your private key is not stored in one of the default locations  like    ssh id rsa   you ll need to tell your SSH authentication agent where to find it  To add your key to ssh-agent  type ssh-add   path to my key  Now  when you first run Git Bash  you are prompted for your passphrase  The ssh-agent process will continue to run until you log out  shut down your computer  or kill the process

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What worked for me on Windows was  I had cloned code from a repo 1st    eval   ssh-agent  ssh-add  git pull    at which time it asked me one last time for my passphrase  Credits  the solution was taken from https   unix stackexchange com questions 12195 how-to-avoid-being-asked-passphrase-each-time-i-push-to-bitbucket

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on mac  if your ssh key need passphrase everytime and you want to skip it  then you can try below  it works fine for me  eval  quot   ssh-agent -s  quot  ssh-add -K  ssh id rsa add this default ssh configuration works for me  Host   AddKeysToAgent yes UseKeychain yes IdentityFile    ssh id rsa

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It sounds like you may be having trouble with SSH-Agent itself  I would try troubleshooting that     1  Did you do ssh-add to add your key to SSH   2  Are you closing the terminal window between uses  because if you close the window you will have to enter the password again when you reopen it

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If the above solutions are not working for me  one thing to check is that you actually have the public key too  typically id rsa pub   It is unusual not to  but that was the cause for me    To create your public key from your private key   ssh-keygen -y -f    ssh id rsa  gt     ssh id rsa pub

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If you are not using GitBash and are on Windows - you need to start your ssh-agent using this command start-ssh-agent cmd  If your ssh agent is not set up  you can open PowerShell as admin and set it to manual mode Get-Service -Name ssh-agent   Set-Service -StartupType Manual

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I had a similar issue  but the other answers didn t fix my problem   I thought I d go ahead and post this just in case someone else has a screwy setup like me   It turns out I had multiple keys and Git was using the wrong one first   It would prompt me for my passphrase  and I would enter it  then Git would use a different key that would work  that I didn t need to enter the passphrase on      I just deleted the key that it was using to prompt me for a passphrase and now it works

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