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Former Member
3 years ago

SSH Agent Error: "error: Error: AppError { error: could not authenticate with ssh agent ..."

Hi, I've been using SSH agent in 1Password 8 for both signing my commits and for authentication (push/pull). The past couple of days I've been having this issue on my intel mac where it would n...
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Former Member
3 years ago

floris_1P The issue returned... :(

Here are the log messages I'm seeing after it happens:


INFO 2022-10-22T01:07:36.382 tokio-runtime-worker(ThreadId(9)) [1P:foundation/op-sys-info/src/process_information/macos/non_app_store.rs:81] failed to find NSApplication related to pid 3138
INFO 2022-10-22T01:07:36.398 tokio-runtime-worker(ThreadId(1168)) [1P:foundation/op-apple/src/biometry_service.rs:287] System biometry info: BiometricStatus { current_policy: WatchOnly, current_method: TouchId, current_availability: Available }
INFO 2022-10-22T01:07:36.412 tokio-runtime-worker(ThreadId(1168)) [1P:foundation/op-apple/src/biometry_service.rs:287] System biometry info: BiometricStatus { current_policy: WatchOnly, current_method: TouchId, current_availability: Available }
ERROR 2022-10-22T01:07:36.419 tokio-runtime-worker(ThreadId(9)) [1P:op-automated-unlock/src/lib.rs:294] Failed to authorize using system biometry: FailedToUnlockWithKeys(BiometryUnavailable)
INFO 2022-10-22T01:07:36.419 tokio-runtime-worker(ThreadId(9)) [1P:ssh/op-ssh-agent/src/lib.rs:419] Session was not authorized

To add more background: I use my macOS laptop with Touch ID closed and rely on Apple Watch for Biometric sign in. I tried opening the laptop and trying again then all of a sudden it started working (even after closing the lid again, as long as I authenticated with TouchID - maybe because at this point it's cached but when the auth expires it will stop working again). I hope this helps debug the issue.