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joshaspinall

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From: Blackburn, Lancashire

Registered: 2015-04-06

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] $SSH_AUTH_SOCK keepassxc

Hello,

Returning Arch User (2016 I believe was my last visit, erk!)

Setting up a new system, up and running on latest Plasma.  Everything installed and working great, except...

I cannot get

$SSH_AUTH_SOCK

set correctly; is returning empty at the moment.  KeepassXC shows the same in the settings page.  The goal is to use KeepassXC to manage adding and removing keys.

ssh-agent

shows the various values as described on the wiki when run, with the variable supposedly set as a result.

ssh-agent is running as a user service,

systemctl status --user ssh-agent

.

Help and pointers welcomed to get this resolved, thanks in advance.

Last edited by joshaspinall (2025-09-07 10:15:43)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] $SSH_AUTH_SOCK keepassxc

How do you start plasma?
Though apparently the environment does systematically not get imported from the user service and you'll have to export it yourself.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SSH_ke … stemd_user

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joshaspinall

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From: Blackburn, Lancashire

Registered: 2015-04-06

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] $SSH_AUTH_SOCK keepassxc

How do you start plasma?

Currently starting KDE as recommended; a lightly themed SDDM setup as per the Wiki.

User level services via systemd are a new beast for me.  With your pointer, I made the following changes:

Enable the user service (properly) with

systemctl enable --user ssh-agent

As using KDE, set the environment variable by adding (as per this section)

export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ssh-agent.socket

to

/home/$USER/.config/plasma-workspace/env/exports.sh

Not forgetting to also allow execution by applying

chmod +x exports.sh

to the file as well.  KeepassXC is happy in the settings page and console

echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK

now shows the variable correctly set.

This solution has so far survived a reboot.  Thanks for your input; always great to resolve an issue and (somewhat) understand the solution!

Last edited by joshaspinall (2025-09-18 13:01:28)