website/content/blog/gpgagentasssh.md

title	date	draft	tags	medium_enabled
GPG Agent as SSH Agent	2020-06-14T22:33:01-04:00	false	SSH GPG/PGP	true

GPG Agent has the ability to act as a SSH Agent. This allows the use of Authentication keys on Smartcards to be used with SSH as well.

First we need to enable SSH support in GPG Agent,

echo "enable-ssh-support" >> ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

Then we need to specify an environmental variable for the SSH Daemon to use GPG Agent

echo "export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$(gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket)" >> ~/.bashrc

If you want it to be active immediately, then source the bashrc,

source ~/.bashrc

If you have a smartcard plugged in, then you should be able to see it via the GPG agent

ssh-add -l