SSH Key – Still asking for password and passphrase

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Add Identity without Keychain

There may be times in which you don’t want the passphrase stored in the keychain, but don’t want to have to enter the passphrase over and over again.

You can do that like this:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

This will ask you for the passphrase, enter it and it will not ask again until you restart.

Add Identity Using Keychain

As @dennis points out in the comments, to persist the passphrase through restarts by storing it in your keychain, you can use the --apple-use-keychain option (-k for Ubuntu) when adding the identity like this:

ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Once again, this will ask you for the passphrase, enter it and this time it will never ask again for this identity.

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