SSH with 1Password
A few weeks ago I shelved my “homemade Bitwarden” and moved to 1Password on the family plan. Yes, you have to pay, but sharing with the family and the ease of use make up for it. Shortly after migrating the passwords I ran into the Developer tab and its SSH agent: private keys live in the vault, they sync themselves across my machines, and every use is authorized with a fingerprint or with Windows Hello. By the way, I later found out that Bitwarden has had an SSH agent too since early 2025. You learn something new every day. It sounded too good to be true, so I set out to check whether it fit my case: several workstations (macOS, Windows, Linux), lots of servers, network gear with SSH from another era, and more and more scripts and AI agents running ssh without me being at the keyboard. In this post I go through what I learned, how I set it up, and where I do NOT use it. …