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Set up Fish Shell to use gpg-agent as the SSH agent for Yubikeys and other smart cards
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| # Add these contents to ~/.config/fish/config.fish | |
| # If using Brew, config.fish is located in /usr/local/Cellar/fish/[version]/etc/fish/ | |
| # Generally recommend using the installer from https://fishshell.com instead of brew | |
| # to avoid version updates overwriting the config file | |
| # Start or re-use a gpg-agent. | |
| gpgconf --launch gpg-agent | |
| # Ensure that GPG Agent is used as the SSH agent | |
| set -e SSH_AUTH_SOCK | |
| set -U -x SSH_AUTH_SOCK ~/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh | |
| # Credit and more info: https://rnorth.org/easier-gpg-agent-with-gpg/ |
Updated the link, thanks
The gpg agent socket wasn't in $HOME/.gnupg on my system (Fedora 42).
I used the output of gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket as value for SSH_AUTH_SOCK.
set -gx SSH_AUTH_SOCK (gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket).
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Current link: https://rnorth.org/easier-gpg-agent-with-gpg/