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From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: Justin Su <injustsu@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commit signing with SSH key uses SSH_AUTH_SOCK but ignores IdentityAgent
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:05:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a25f71ad-093f-4e8d-97ef-503bfb9926d2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=S_8JhN=WSuYRMWbGz7gZMRX9dSb3k8rJZ7zrxkbHKOqfzww@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Justin

On 13/09/2024 10:58, Justin Su wrote:
> I use Secretive (https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive) to store my
> SSH keys on macOS. I've configured my ssh_config to use it as the
> IdentityAgent, and Git can push and pull just fine.
> 
> However, it seems that Git ignores IdentityAgent when signing commits,
> resulting in the following error message:

Git just runs "ssh -Y". I can reproduce this on linux - I suspect the 
problem is that ssh does not read the IdentityAgent config when signing 
even if it is outside a Host/Match in the config file.

Best Wishes

Phillip

> error: No private key found for public key "foo.pub"?
> fatal: failed to write commit object
> 
> I've worked around this by setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK, but this doesn't
> feel correct to me. Is this intended behaviour?
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-13 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-13  9:58 Commit signing with SSH key uses SSH_AUTH_SOCK but ignores IdentityAgent Justin Su
2024-09-13 15:05 ` Phillip Wood [this message]
2024-09-14 16:08   ` Justin Su

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