SSH Key - Still asking for password and passphrase

Question

I\'ve been somewhat \'putting up\' with Github always asking for my username and password when I clone a repository. I want to bypass this step because it is an annoyance w

Answer 1

I tried all the answers here and none of these answers worked! My password would not persist between sessions/restarts of my Mac.

What I found out from reading this OpenRadar and this Twitter discussion was that Apple purposely changed the behaviour for ssh-agent in macOS 10.12 Sierra to no longer automatically load the previous SSH keys. In order to maintain the same behaviour as El Cap I did the following:

1. ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa
   Note: change the path to where your id_rsa key is located.
2. ssh-add -A

3. Create (or edit if it exists) the following ~/.ssh/config file:

   Host *
     UseKeychain yes
     AddKeysToAgent yes
     IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
   

And now my password is remembered between restarts of my Mac!