This recipe allows you to use the ssh-agent from homebrew with the auto generated SSH_AUTH_SOCK in /private/tmp. It works because disabling com.openssh.ssh-agent doesn't stop launchd from allocating SSH_AUTH_SOCK. com.homebrew.ssh-agent spawns a shell to remove the socket and then execute the homebrew ssh-agent.
- Install openssh from homebrew
- Disable the built in macOS agent:
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.openssh.ssh-agent - Copy com.homebrew.ssh-agent.plist into ~/Library/LaunchAgents
- Enable the new agent:
launchctl bootstrap gui/$UID com.homebrew.ssh-agent.plist - Ensure that the correct agent is running: