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Niels3242's avatar
Niels3242
New Contributor
2 months ago

How to successfully pass 1Password stored SSH key to terminal in VSCode devcontainer?

I have a Rails 8 app which is using devcontainers. On my macOS I have 1Password setup to store my ssh private key and it works as it should from the terminal in the os. Using e.g. ssh commands invoke...
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Michael_Mercuri
Contributor
31 days ago

I cannot answer from direct experience since I'm not using VSCode devcontainers, but it sounds like it's a communication issue with 1Password's SSH agent from inside the devcontainer.

Is the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable set (in your shell running in macOS terminal)?

Did you see this post which may provide some hints?
https://1password.community/discussion/146096/vscode-dev-container-and-ssh

If you've never configured SSH_AUTH_SOCK or SSH Agent forwarding before, more info here:
https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh/agent/forwarding