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AVFritze

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Registered: 2016-04-20

Posts: 24

KeePass with KeeAgent in Client Mode doesn't work for me

Hello all, I am trying since days to get Keepass with KeeAgent to work. In the past I did it successfully on other machines but this time it won't work. I installed Archlinux fresh and updated it. GNOME is installed as well. I installed keepass (following this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KeePass) with:

 sudo pacman -S keepass 

After that I downloaded KeeAgent Version 0.3.18, unzipped it and copied the plgx file to:

 /usr/share/keepass/plugins/ 

With:

 KeePass -> Tools -> Options -> KeeAgent -> Agent mode socket file -> %XDG_RUNTIME_DIR%/keeagent.socket 

and setting the environment variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK in ~/.bash_profile

 export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"'/keeagent.socket' 

I thought this would be all I have to do. I did logoff and logon again but after starting keepass I get this error message:

 Could not add key because no SSH Agent was found. Please make sure your SSH Agent is running (e.g. Pageant). 

After that - keepass can not run in client mode - I was playing around with starting the ssh-agent by myself with:

 eval $(ssh-agent) 

and changing the path to the socket file in KeePass -> Tools .... to %SSH_AUTH_SOCK% (because this variable will be set by eval $(ssh-agent) and will point to the socket- file. But with no real success either. Now keepass changed to Agent-Mode the relevant Keys are reported as loaded in the entry- overview (but obviously not to ssh-agent). Still I cannot use it with a sshfs command (I will we prompted to insert the passphrase each time I try to mount a remote share), because sshfs is probably looking in the ssh-agent and not in the KeeAgent if I understand it right. So - I don't have any idea anymore what to do next. Do you?

Last edited by AVFritze (2024-11-13 14:00:58)