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I ran some X applications using ssh -Y my_address and now it asks me to unlock my RSA key every time I use it. I used to only have to unlock it once a day. What's going on?

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04.

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  • Is ssh-agent running in the background?
    – Grumbel
    Apr 21, 2010 at 15:50
  • @Grumbel: Yep, it is.
    – Benjamin Oakes
    Apr 21, 2010 at 16:25

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Reset to default
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Found it elsewhere. I had to do this:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
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    Ugh... it happens again when I restart my computer. Running this command fixes it, but it doesn't seem like I should have to do this every day.
    – Benjamin Oakes
    Apr 22, 2010 at 15:58
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    create a startup script that runs this command at boot. or adjust your crontab to run it daily.
    – Ben Plont
    Aug 19, 2013 at 22:30
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    +1 thank you - this helped me when I got: "An application wants to access the private key but its locked" - on running the above, it asked for the passphrase - which was the password I used when creating the key - and on supplying that, that worked - I was now able to pull from bitbucket.
    – therobyouknow
    Mar 28, 2021 at 20:04
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For anyone who get's a Could not open a connection to your authentication agent when executing ssh-add will need to start ssh-agent first.

    eval `ssh-agent`
    ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
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I am sure you have fixed this by now, but you might be interested to see a response to a question I recently asked on AskUbuntu.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/36255/why-wont-ssh-agent-save-my-unencrypted-key-for-later-use/36302#36302

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