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Former Member
3 years ago1Password asking for permission each time
When using 1Password for storing my SSH keys, it asks for authentication (here: fingerprint) each time a key is accessed. This is different from handling passwords for e. g. web forms: As long as 1Pa...
barneydesmond
3 years agoNew Contributor
I've had a chance to give it a try again and the behaviour looks better now, probably correct in terms of behaving as intended. That said, I don't think it's yet practical for me. Echoing verboese's comment above, I think I understand how it's working now. Within a single terminal window it works great, but not across multiple windows - it's a separate unlock for each window/process.
Is there any chance this could become a configurable thing? I'd be quite happy for it to be an all-or-nothing situation, as I'm often using multiple SSH keys in multiple different terminals. I could probably reduce it to a single SSH key, but I'd want that key to be available to all processes once I've unlocked 1Password for the session (subject to normal lock-on-idle and lock-on-sleep behaviours).