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OSX Sierra SSH Passphrase persistence

NB: Most people use the defult SSH key ~/.ssh/id_rsa however you can create your own so change this as needed

  1. Add the following to ~/.ssh/config
Host *
  UseKeychain yes
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  1. ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Based on the following solution on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41492503/837191

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