
The dialog for ssh-agent can be circumvented by adding the key in the console/terminal: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa will do the trick, you can paste the password into the terminal.
As mattmcmanus said, id_rsa encryption using PKCS seems to be broken on OSX Mavericks ssh-agent. The fast workaround is to decrypt the keyfile, and encrypt it again with the standard ssh procedure (Key-derivation method: MD5...):




mv id_rsa id_rsa.pkcs
openssl rsa -in id_rsa.pkcs -out id_rsa
# enter passphrase to decrypt
chmod 0600 id_rsa
ssh-keygen -f id_rsa -p
# enter passphrase to encrypt again


OSX ssh-agent: no password pasting, and problem with PKCS#8?
See, in one of our employee evaluation systems, we would like to implement a feature by which any employee can show appreciation to another employee that he has got help from or whom he thinks to be a good performer, mentor etc., and it has to be done every month. So, to give a name to this action, one of the suggestions was the phrase 'give kudos', but we expect to have a better one with a similar meaning. Something interesting!!

Update: It is not mandatory that we should use the word 'give' or 'kudos'! when we rephrase it.

Can anyone help me on this?
