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emphasizelittle

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Registered: 2019-03-21

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Unable to get keepassxc to work with ssh-agent

Problem: Keepassxc shows the error "No agent running, cannot add identity" when starting. I am also unable to add keys to the ssh-agent with the keepassxc gui.

I have setup ssh-agent to run using systemd user from the wiki

Troubleshooting:
I've verified the ssh-agent service is running

ssh-agent.service - SSH key agent
   Loaded: loaded (/home/luke/.config/systemd/user/ssh-agent.service; enabled; vendor pr>
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-06-14 15:20:09 PDT; 6min ago
 Main PID: 26554 (ssh-agent)
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/ssh-agent.service
           └─26554 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -D -a /run/user/1000/ssh-agent.socket

Jun 14 15:20:09 chaos systemd[974]: Started SSH key agent.
Jun 14 15:20:09 chaos ssh-agent[26554]: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/ssh-agent.socket; e>
Jun 14 15:20:09 chaos ssh-agent[26554]: echo Agent pid 26554;

~/.pam_environment contains

SSH_AUTH_SOCK DEFAULT="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/ssh-agent.socket

I am using KDE so I figure the note (in the arch wiki link above) about the environment variable being overridden when using the GNOME keyring doesn't apply.

Last edited by emphasizelittle (2019-06-20 16:27:01)

emphasizelittle

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Registered: 2019-03-21

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to get keepassxc to work with ssh-agent

I was able to fix this by setting the SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable using this method rather than ~/.pam_environment