Why do ssh operations always ask for passphrase? (with ed25519)
Edit 2018:
This was resolved in gnome-keyring by wrapping ssh-agent recently so the workarounds should not be needed anymore and everything should work out of the box.
Original workarounds for older systems:
/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh is path of Gnome keyring (seahorse), which does not support Ed25519 keys. There are two possibilities:
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Do not use ED25519 keys and use RSA (which should be good enough)
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Run real
ssh-agentin your startup scripts (~/.xsession) usingeval `ssh-agent`