ssh keys and organizations

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Node 20.18.1
Architecture x64
Windows 11

Dear All,

I am running Bitwarden ssh agent as described in documentation and it works for me, if I add ssh keys to my personal vault.

I am connecting to an Ubuntu 22.04 using ssh in the Powershell 7 of my Windows 11. I created a new ssh key pair in Bitwarden, connected to the server with old keys and added the public key to authorized_keys. It works.
I connect with [email protected] , get the approval prompt in the desktop app and the session gets established

Now I move the ssh key to my Bitwarden organization. When trying the same connection scenario I get error:
sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed for ED25519 “id_ed25519_server” from agent: agent refused operation

May this be a bug of Bitwarden or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance for any hints.

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I think after double reading the documentation I found the answer. They write it is not supported and recommended.

Still it is misleading me, while using Bitwarden. It finds the key and offers it for authentication. It just fails because no obvious reason.

If Bitwarden will not offer support for shared keys, then please do not offer organization shared keys for authentication at all through the client.