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I'm currently facing a little issue about the ssh-agent service. I rebooted my computer today after removing a Boot Camp partition. Since then, ssh-agent no longer starts automatically at login.

I use this agent really often with Git and multiple SSH keys and have not seen a problem like this before. I can't find any errors about ssh-agent in the "Console" application.

How can I check the service configuration? What can I do to make it work again?

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They chose to realign macOS behavior (Sierra) with the mainstream OpenSSH. You'll maybe find an explanation to make it work again here:

SSH-agent does not automatically load passphrases on the OSX Sierra keychain during startup

Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as intended based on the following information: That’s expected. We re-aligned our behavior with the mainstream OpenSSH in this area. You can fix this pretty easily by running ssh-add -A in your rc script if you want your keys to always be loaded.

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