Mac ZSH shell “忘记” ssh 键

Question

I'm trying to get Git to work, which keeps insisting that I don't have the correct access right (Permission denied, publickey), which lead me to this post , suggesting to inspect ssh-add

I noticed that, indeed, ssh-add -l returned

The agent has no identities.

So, I added an identity

ssh-add ~/.ssh/ssh_key

Which returned exit code 0 (from echo $? )

Now, ssh-add -l shows that I have a key added. However, once I quit and re-open terminal, the key disappears. ssh-add -l returns "The agent has no identities." all over again.

Does anyone know how I can add the key so that it sticks?

Answer 1

You could add the ssh-add -K to your ~/.bash_profile

But check first if your SSH connection is working with a key not passphrase protected:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -P "" -f ~/.ssh/test

(register test.pub to the remote server ~/.ssh/authorized_keys or the remote GitHub profile SSH page)

 ssh -i ~/.ssh/test user@remote_server
 # or, if this is github
 ssh -T -i ~/.ssh/test git@github.com