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devoutsalsa
devoutsalsa

Reputation: 1200

How do I start the ssh-agent at boot (or login) using Launchd?

There's a plist in /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.openssh.ssh-agent.plist. I've spent a couple hours trying to get it to start at boot/login, but I have had no luck yet. Most of my time has been spent trying to understand various launchctl commands, but I haven't found a combination that works yet. I've tried copying it to ~/Library/LaunchAgents, I've tried adding <key>RunAtLoad</key>, and everything else I can think of. I haven't had any luck figuring out how to view the debug logs either.

Since I'm likely doing something wrong, and the solution should be simple, it feels like trying to explain what I have been doing is not helpful in this case.

2 questions:

Here's the contents of the file:

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.openssh.ssh-agent</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/bin/ssh-agent</string>
        <string>-l</string>
    </array>
    <key>Sockets</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Listeners</key>
        <dict>
            <key>SecureSocketWithKey</key>
            <string>SSH_AUTH_SOCK</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <key>EnableTransactions</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1941

Answers (1)

asu
asu

Reputation: 11

If you run ssh-add -l or attempt to add a key ssh-add ... you should see the process. On reboot/login the process doesn't run until something tried to access the agent via SSH_AUTH_SOCK.

Upvotes: 1

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