ssh fails to connect to agent

[zachgersh]

There seems to be something slightly strange going on for me on my mac:

if I run the agent directly myself (in the foreground) I can connect to the AUTH_SOCK and everything is fine.

On the other hand, if I attempt to let brew services start the agent (which I believe is root) my user can not longer access the agent AUTH_SOCK, I basically just get permission denied.

Do I have my mac set up in some strange way?

[zachgersh]

so trying:

sudo brew services stop yubikey-agent
brew services start yubikey-agent

No agent is running on the machine. Before, the agent was just running as root when I would sudo ps ax

[zachgersh]

alright - to fix this bit, I had to make sure that I chown'ed over the log file for the yubikey-agent in /usr/local/var/log. I figured this out by looking at launchctl list and noticing that the status for yubikey-agent was 78 aka some problem has occurred starting.

[charlesfracchia]

alright - to fix this bit, I had to make sure that I chown'ed over the log file for the yubikey-agent in /usr/local/var/log. I figured this out by looking at launchctl list and noticing that the status for yubikey-agent was 78 aka some problem has occurred starting.

Thank you so much for this answer. I was going crazy running down this exact same rabbit hole. I had chowned every other file but this one...