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If you want to use Keeper (you'll need the desktop client for this, _not_ the browser plugin) for storing your SSH keys, and not have local plaintext copies on your machine, you can do so.
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This is done by adding your newly-generated key to keeper (with the `SSH key` record type) with your public key, private key and passphrase filled in.
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This is done by following [this guide](https://docs.keeper.io/en/keeperpam/privileged-access-manager/ssh-agent#activating-the-ssh-agent) with your public key, private key and passphrase filled in.
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In `Settings -> Developer`, enable the "SSH Agent" which will add your keys, without needing to enter the passphrases, when the keeper vault is unlocked.
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Ignore the section below as you don't need to manually set up an SSH agent.
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Ignore the section below as you don't need to manually set up an SSH agent.
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You may need to [turn the `OpenSSH` agent off](https://docs.keeper.io/en/keeperpam/privileged-access-manager/ssh-agent#windows-note-on-ssh-agent-conflicts) if it's on your machine - see if `ssh-agent` is running in your services in task manager.
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### Troubleshooting
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#### SSH works and prompts to use passphrase, but git doesn't show the prompt
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If `ssh [email protected]` works fine, your SSH key has been added to Github, so that's a good start.
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You may need to set the `GIT_SSH` environment variable to wherever your git installation is as git might try and use its own ssh executable which doesn't seem to work with Keeper. `where ssh` will tell you where this is.
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## Manually Setting up SSH agent
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