The problem

The app repeatedly prompts me for my SSH key passphrase throughout the day, triggered by a background fetch. If I enter my passphrase and check the "Remember passphrase" box, at some point I will be prompted again on a future background fetch. However, the prompt is clearly not required; if I trigger an action manually, I'm not prompted and the action succeeds. I only have two repos added to GitHub Desktop, and I can confirm both work for manual actions without prompting for a passphrase. Something somewhere is remembering the passphrase, but sometimes it doesn't work for background fetch.

Release version

3.4.2

Operating system

macOS Sonoma 14.5

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Have an SSH key with a passphrase, with that passphrase added to ssh-agent or whatever

• may be relevant: I'm also using the following settings in my ~/.ssh/config:

Host *
  UseKeychain yes
  ControlMaster auto
  ControlPath /tmp/%r@%h:%p
  ControlPersist yes

2. Clone a repo or two via SSH with that key from the command line
3. Add that/those repo(s) to GitHub Desktop
4. Wait for a background fetch

Log files

2024-07-26.desktop.production.log

This was the first thing I did this morning:

• look at GitHub Desktop which had been open overnight
• saw the passphrase prompt
• entered my passphrase & checked "Remember passphrase"
  The fetch seemed to complete without errors after that, or at least the UI didn't surface any errors to me.

Screenshots

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Additional context

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