Interoperability with gpg-agent (YubiKey)

[kdambekalns]

Cyberduck is great, but I cannot use it anymore, since I switched to using a YubiKey to store my SSH private key.

The reason is simply the requirement to select a private key file when opening a connection.

Note: I can connect using SSH on the command-line, using ForkLift, SourceTree, … just fine. They all just use the identity agent I have configured…

Since this blocks me from using Cyberduck, I consider this a defect…

[dkocher]

From my understanding you configure YubiKey to be used as a one-time passcode with the SSH server. We have instructions on how this works with ​Google Authenticator but I assume this should work similar if configured using ChallengeResponseAuthentication in OpenSSH. Otherwise, please elaborate on the setup.

[kdambekalns]

No, I am not using the YubiKey as a 2FA token. I use it as a hardware token, it stores my RSA keys. My SSH is set up to talk to gpg-agent, which is running as gpg-agent --daemon --enable-ssh-support. The result is, that by now most tools that can use my native SSH setup work fine, with the help of IdentityAgent ~/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh in my ~/.ssh/config.

With "SSH Private Key" set to "None" for the connection, it asks me for a password… But when trying to enable the use of a private key, Cyberduck forces me to select a private key file–I don't have a file, though, the private key is hidden in my YubiKey.

[dkocher]

We do not currently read IdentityAgent from OpenSSH configuration ~/.ssh/config. But if the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable is pointing to the GPG agent socket it should work.

[dkocher]

References

• ​How to use a GPG key for SSH authentication
• ​Configure ssh-agent emulation in gpg-agent
• ​YubiKey, SSH, GnuPG, macOS

[kdambekalns]

Indeed, with SSH_AUTH_SOCK set (which it was already for me) and Cyberduck being started from the command line (I didn't try that, it seems), it works as expected. That's at least something!

[dkocher]

     IdentityAgent
             Specifies the UNIX-domain socket used to communicate with the authentication agent.

             This option overrides the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable and can be used to select a specific agent.  Setting the socket name to none disables the use of an authentication agent.  If the string
             "SSH_AUTH_SOCK" is specified, the location of the socket will be read from the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable.

[dkocher]

It would be nice if we have a user friendly configuration option that does not require to open the application from the command line.

[dkocher]

#10800 closed as duplicate.

[achim]

For your information:

There is a solution to this bug, you can create a plist to make Cyberduck accept $AUTH_SSH_SOCK when opened from the dock.

Instructions are here: ​https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/stick-with-security-yubikey-ssh-gnupg-macos

Unfortunatly it only works up until 7.0.2, see #10800