setting up Bitwarden SSH Agent for VS Code on MAC OS
Richard Martens has been involved in information technology for more than 20 years. He started as a web developer using the Oracle database as no more than data storage. Richard has been responsible for major European multilingual websites and has been working with the Oracle database since 2000. During those years, he developed himself using a multitude of technologies and specialized in PL/SQL and Oracle APEX. Richard has been working primarily with PLSQL and APEX since 2005. With APEX, he combines the things he loves most: the Oracle database and web technologies.
Recently I switched over from Roboform to Bitwarden as my passwordvault. The main advantages why I did this:
I use a vaultwarden docker image on my DS420j NAS
Vaultwarden is completely free
I can use the standard Bitwarden clients (Desktop and Browser extensions)
I can share my passwords between all my laptops (Mac OS, Linux and Windows)
It has an integrated SSH agent, so I can use my SSH keys throughout my development stack on all my devices
Very important, make sure (on Mac OS) to use brew to install Bitwarden:
brew install --cask bitwarden
then make sure that your environment is set correctly (I did it in my "~/.zshrc" file:
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.bitwarden-ssh-agent.sock
Finally, make sure that the MacOS environment is properly configured for VS Code to pick up the setting:
launchctl setenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK"
Now, when I open a git repo from gitlab, github or whatever git server, VS Code tries to open the SSH Agent and my Bitwarden desktop client asks me to authorize the request; Brilliant.
