[wayland] signign failed: agent refused operation

Thanks for the speedy response floris_1P! I was seeing agent refused operation but that appears to have gone away today. Apologies for the false alarm. I think something was wrong with my polkit setup.

mjec So you're seeing agent refused operation on every SSH request? If so, do you see anything in the 1Password logs appear when you run a failing SSH command? On Linux: $HOME/.config/1Password/logs.

Or could it be that you're seeing Too many authentication failures?

It looks like this issue is back with 1Password 8.7.0-49.BETA and OpenSSH_9.0p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1n 15 Mar 2022. Explicitly specifying an identity (ssh -i) works around it for me.

It worked for me after removing github entry from ~/.ssh/known_hosts

With the 8.6.0_68.BETA-68 update it now works correctly.
Thank you very much for the support.

After the update to 8.6.0_51.BETA-51 the behaviour is back to the one of the first post.
The only difference is that now the username@hostname is correctly shown in the error:


$ ssh -T git@github.com
sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed for ED25519 "lupolucio@spettro" from agent: agent refused operation
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).


After seeing another post I've tried the following:


$ ssh-add -l
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.


floris_1P is this the same as building from git? I'm supposedly on the latest version (80600043, on BETA channel) and this is still not fixed, I can't see the release channel in Arch though.

For those using OpenSSH 8.9: we've made some improvements to the SSH agent which should also fix this issue. It'll be available in the next beta update, but if you want to try it now already, you can switch to the Nightly release channel from the 1Password 8 preferences: .

I started seeing this issue around the same time as the beta 8.6.0_43.BETA-43, some time in the middle of the week. Unfortunately reverting to the previous 1P beta #26 did not fix the issue. I still got the following log messages as also reported above.


~ ᐅ ssh -T git@github.com -vvv
...
debug2: get_agent_identities: ssh_agent_bind_hostkey: communication with agent failed
debug1: get_agent_identities: ssh_fetch_identitylist: communication with agent failed
...
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).


Since reverting the 1Password update didn't restore the old working state, my troubleshooting lead me to realize that the Arch openssh package was updated from v8.8p1 to v8.9p1 around the same time. Reverting to the version in the Arch repo archives dated 2022/02/22 restored the old working behavior. I haven't taken the time to track down exactly why this downgrade fixes this issue since the workaround of downgrading the package is working for me for the time being.

After the update to 8.6.0_43.BETA-43 I got the following output, even after disabling the agent, deleting the socket file, rebooting and enabling everything again.


$ ssh -T git@github.com -vvv
...
debug2: get_agent_identities: ssh_agent_bind_hostkey: communication with agent failed
debug1: get_agent_identities: ssh_fetch_identitylist: communication with agent failed
...
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).