Bug 411274

Summary:	Support storing SSH key passphrase in secure store
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	ljelinek, mn, mpol, twolf
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	5.3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
See Also:	https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=179924
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Description Gunnar Wagenknecht

2013-06-20 11:19:20 EDT

It would be nice if EGit can somehow integrate with Keyring on Mac OS X for storing passphrases of SSH keys.

FWIW, there is a workaround available by using the native SSH agent:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/FAQ#Store_SSH_Key_Passphrase_in_Mac_Keyring

Comment 1 Libor Jelinek

2013-06-23 17:50:47 EDT

Same quite annoying drawback of EGit affects Ubuntu where I also still and still need to type my SSH passphrase.

However also the same workaround (setting GIT_SSH=/usr/bin/ssh) helps, it is really annoying and should be addressed in further versions.

Comment 2 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2019-04-12 08:51:24 EDT

*** Bug 545684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2019-04-12 08:53:11 EDT

This is now working in 5.3 with the Apache MINA SSHD client.