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petebocken
Occasional Contributor
3 years ago

"Host * IdentityAgent" required to connect to SFTP and "Host customname IdentityAgent" not working

I'm connecting SFTP with Transmit to a SiteGround server. I can connect just fine if I have Host * IdentityAgent "~/Library/Group Containers/2BUA8C4S2C.com.1password/t/agent.sock added to my ssh co...
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petebocken
Occasional Contributor
3 years ago

OK, I removed IdentityFile and IdentitiesOnly from the specific host entry in config and it still won't connect in Transmit:

Host customname
HostName domain.com
Port 18765
User username
IdentityAgent "~/Library/Group Containers/2BUA8C4S2C.com.1password/t/agent.sock"

It still only works if I have the IdentityAgent set on Host *. But I can't use that because then it breaks SSH and SFTP with my aforementioned issue with DigitalOcean and SSH server six-key limit.

So it appears that Transmit needs Host * in order for 1P ssh-agent to work, but only for some hosts. My config entries are the same HostName that I am using in Transmit, so I would figure it would see them just fine, correct?

I think I'll have to abandon 1P SSH Keys completely for now. I can't figure out the correct combination of ssh config, which public and/or private keys need to be downloaded and/or loaded in Transmit. It's very possible everything would work fine if I used something else besides Transmit, but I'm not willing to give that up.