zerosal / bit-agent

Unofficial Bitwarden SSH agent.

bit-agent

Unofficial Bitwarden SSH agent.

The icon is a mashup of two Freepik icons.

Why this project?

Bitwarden stands out as one of the premier password managers available today. However, it lacks a critical feature for software developers: the management and injection of SSH keys. This project addresses this significant shortcoming, thereby enabling even advanced users to fully appreciate and be satisfied with this password manager.

OS compatibility

• Linux
• MacOS

Architecture compatibility

• x64 (both Intel and AMD)
• arm64

Dependecies

• Bitwarden CLI

Installation

The binary has a built-in wizard that installs the softwares on the system.

Download the binary

The release binary name is like bit-agent-{OS}-{ARCH}, where OS is the kernel name and the ARCH is the CPU architecture.

# Linux on x64
curl https://github.com/zeroSal/bit-agent/releases/latest/download/bit-agent-linux-amd64

# Linux on ARM
curl https://github.com/zeroSal/bit-agent/releases/latest/download/bit-agent-linux-arm64

# MacOS on x64
curl https://github.com/zeroSal/bit-agent/releases/latest/download/bit-agent-darwin-amd64

# MacOS on ARM
curl https://github.com/zeroSal/bit-agent/releases/latest/download/bit-agent-darwin-arm64

Set the execution permissions

The binary needs execution permissions.

chmod +x bit-agent

Run the install procedure

This procedure needs root privileges.

sudo ./bit-agent --install

Run it

A symlink to /usr/local/bin is created, so the user can run the binary directly from the PATH.

bit-agent

bit-agent's Issues

Sync the vault before and after operations

The Bitwarden CLI needs a manual bw sync operation to synchronize the local stuff with the cloud.
This command should be automatically run every local vault edits.

Maybe the sync command should be done periodically (thinking about a thread).