Turn off the SSH Agent

Question

How do I turn the SSH Agent off? I'm having troubles with Vagrant and it indicates that I should disable my SSH Agent before continuing, yet I can't find a straight forward answer. How would I do it?

Temporary answers work too. I'm happy with how my environment is setup, it's just this particular situation where I need to verify that disabling the SSH Agent corrects the issue, even if I then turn it back on.

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '16 at 20:03

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unset the environment variable $SSH_AUTH_SOCK. In bash, from where you run the vagrant commands, simply:

export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=""

answered Aug 01 '16 at 20:03

Jakuje

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Any comment for the downvote? – Jakuje Dec 16 '17 at 10:48
Any idea on how to do this permanently? – Bishwas Mishra Nov 27 '18 at 14:36
The other answer sounds like permanent solution. Or you can write this into your ~/.bashrc. It will practically disable it permanently for all the sessions. (after relogin). – Jakuje Nov 28 '18 at 09:24
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Works great for me. To disable it for just a single connection (while preserving the agent in the terminal session), I ran a command like this: SSH_AUTH_SOCK="" ssh user@127.0.0.1 – arcanemachine Jan 31 '22 at 04:33

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 14 '17 at 13:27

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launchctl stop com.openssh.ssh-agent

answered Dec 14 '17 at 13:27

Sergey Stolyarov

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score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 27 '20 at 21:32

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eval $(ssh-agent -k) kills the agent in the current terminal.

It runs these commands

unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
unset SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 89141 killed;

answered Jun 27 '20 at 21:32

Breedly

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Turn off the SSH Agent

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