Cannot get SFTP to work with id_rsa keyfile

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I'm trying to connect to a Hetzner storagebox via SFTP.
I set up authentication without password via keyfile, which works if I connect to the server through commandline with ssh -p 23 XXXX@XXXX

After I follow the rclone config wizard and try to mount the cloud storage I only get the following error:

Failed to create file system for "storagebox:/": couldn't connect to ssh-agent: SSH agent requested but SSH_AUTH_SOCK not-specified

After a bit of googling I found out that I maybe need to forward my ssh agent? But how do I do that?
I'm using Proxmox.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.60.0

  • os/version: debian 11.5 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 5.15.64-1-pve (x86_64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.19.2
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Hetzner Storagebox

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone mount storagebox:/ /mnt/storagebox/

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

[storagebox]
type = sftp
host = xxxxx
user = xxxxx
port = 23
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Ok, I figured out that I first have to execute the following commands to get it working:

eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add

However the speed is very slow compared to a transfer with scp. I only get 5MB/s with rclone regardless of the number of transfers I'm setting. I will open a seperate topic for that issue. However someone could tell me if it is the normal process to first start an instance of ssh-agent and then adding the keys to it or am I doing something wrong?

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It depends on how your OS is set up. Mine starts the ssh-agent for me, but I have to add the keys manually.

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How did you set up the autostart of the SSH agent?

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My OS starts the SSH agent for me. You can usually do it in the autostart config for your desktop.

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