Hi, I am running into an issue with OpenSSH which does not remember the passphrase of my private key.
When I ssh to a remote host using public/private key authentication, a dialog box asking for the passphrase pops up. I enter the passphrase *and* tick the box to ask Keychain to remember my passphrase. After that, I can successfully log into the remote system, but there is a message: "Could not add identity: /Users/my_username/.ssh/id_rsa”. I can continue to log into the remote system without entering again the passphrase. However, once I completely log out of my Mac and re-log into my Mac, the terminal does not remember my passphrase anymore. After googling around, it seems that the Mac native SSH has added a new SSH keyword “UseKeychain”, while the MacPorts version does not have this keyword and is having problem talking to Keychain. I cannot find any solution to this. Does anyone know any solution or is working on one? ====== ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.12.6 BuildVersion: 16G1212 Darwin ***.***.***.edu 16.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.7.0: Thu Jan 11 22:59:40 PST 2018; root:xnu-3789.73.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 Xcode Version 9.2 (9C40b) MacPorts 2.4.2 openssh @7.6p1_1+gsskex+kerberos5+xauth openssh @7.6p1_2+gsskex+kerberos5+xauth (active) openssl @1.0.2m_0 openssl @1.0.2n_0 (active) ====== Very much appreciated. Sincerely, Chao-Chin Yang Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Nevada, Las Vegas, U.S.A.
