macOS authentication agent asking for a passphrase, does it forget your public/private key?

Written by Pascal Baljet Media - Blog / Original link on Dec. 10, 2016

Every once in a while when I try to access a git repository, I need to enter a passphrase for my public/private key. Without having modified once of the keys, somehow the macOS authentication agent seems to forget the keys. $ git pull Enter passphrase for key '/Users/pascalbaljet/.ssh/id_rsa': Of…