bwsshauth

Keep passphrases for your locally present private keys in Bitwarden and add them to ssh-agent with one command

Motivation

Securing ssh keys with password manager (Bitwarden)

Use case

Maintaining multiple ssh keys
Frequent need for adding keys to ssh-agent

Dependencies

Pure python (tested on 3.10)
bitwarden/cli

Setup

Create new folder in Bitwarden
Create item with passphrase in bw's folder
Copy config.py.example as config.py
Obtain folderId of your folder through bitwardenw/cli bw list command
Input folderId into config.py
Create .csv file for bitwarden item to ssh key mapping
Input path to csv into config.py
Obtain itemID of your item through bitwarden/cli
Fill .csv with mapping in format: itemId,path_to_key
Make the script executable using chmod +x <name_of_script>

Bonus: Create symlink in /usr/bin for easier use (I use bwsshauth)

Usage

Type bwsshauth
Follow instructions