Fix ssh agent not working after macOS Catalina Reboot

This is going to be a short post incase I need to configure the ssh agent to work after rebooting my Mac. I use two git accounts. One for work and a personal one. In order to make sure I’m using the right git account I have separate ssh-keys. In order to make those ssh-keys work I have a config file within the root of my .ssh folder. Here is my configuration

Host *
UseKeychain yes
AddKeysToAgent yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_personal
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_work

The trick into getting this to work is the “UserKeychain” and “AddKeysToAgent” portion of the config. Without it this wouldn’t work.

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