[aklug] Re: ssh-agent?

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* Ted Rathkopf <ted@rathkopf.org> [2010-08-01 22:46 -0500]:
> If you are using X windows, it's handy to edit your .startx or
> .xinitrc so that it runs ssh-agent when it starts your session
> manager. Then the session manager and all future processes spawned
> from it are child processes of the ssh-agent and inherit the
> information about the agent, so you don't need to enter your key
> information again that session once you've run ssh-add.

Yep, I use it in my standard bashrc as follows (corrections welcome).

#v+
SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"

function start_agent {
        test "$(uname | tr [A-Z] [a-z])" != "darwin" \
                && test "`which ssh-agent`" != "" \
                && echo "Initialising new SSH agent..." \
                && `which ssh-agent` | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}" \
                && echo "succeeded" \
                && chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}" \
                && . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null #\
# && /usr/bin/ssh-add;
}

# Source SSH settings, if applicable
if test -f "${SSH_ENV}" ; then
        . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
        ps ax | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
                start_agent;
        }
else
        start_agent;
fi
#v-

That, of course, was amalgamated from multiple sources online, and I
removed the last line of "start_agent" because I kept loading the same
ID over and over. ;)

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dave [ please don't CC me ]
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