VSCode dev container and SSH

Speedbird186 ,

Yes, it should be IdentityAgent!

Regarding your problem.

I think this will only work in a Dev Container by using the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable. So, export SSH_AUTH_SOCK in your shell configuration file for WSL. If you're using bash, then in .bashrc put the following: export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$HOME/.1password/agent.sock".

Now, launch VSCode, but before you start your dev container, see if your VSCode environment is seeing SSH_AUTH_SOCK. Open the integrated terminal in VSCode and see that SSH_AUTH_SOCK is set. If SSH_AUTH_SOCK is not set, you need to figure out how to set it before you launch your dev container. I believe VSCode will map the host SSH_AUTH_SOCK to a socket file in the container.

Oh, and one other thing that I forgot in my previous post! I have mapped my host ~/.ssh directory into the container. Here is a snippet from my devcontainer.json.

```json
"mounts": [
// Bind mount the developer's SSH directory to allow using SSH keys for
// GitLab. The target must be the home directory of the non-root user of the
// container.
{
"source": "${localEnv:HOME}/.ssh",
"target": "/home/node/.ssh",
"type": "bind"
}
]

```

I'm using a Node image and the non-root user, node, in the container, so I'm mapping my .ssh directory into the container user's home directory.

So,

• Your SSH config and keys must be mapped into the dev container, like on your host.
• VSCode will map the local SSH_AUTH_SOCK into the container if VSCode sees that SSH_AUTH_SOCK is set.
  • Unless you have changed any of the Remote SSH settings in VSCode.

Let me know if I can help you further or if you figure it out!