MacOS Sierra Asking for SSH Passphrase

There’s a recent change in the handling of SSH keys in MacOS Sierra that means you need to enter your passphrase each time a key is required. There’s an open Radar issue about it and it’s intended behaviour now.

You can work around it by implementing one of the solutions at the links below, I personally went with adding:

ssh-add -A 2>/dev/null;

into my .zshrc file and that solved it for me (or .bash_rc if you use bash).

More information and solutions can be found at:

• http://superuser.com/questions/1127067/macos-keeps-asking-my-ssh-passphrase-since-i-updated-to-sierra
• http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/254468/macos-sierra-doesn-t-seem-to-remember-ssh-keys-between-reboots