On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:41 AM, John Doe jdmls@yahoo.com wrote:
From: bluethundr bluethundr@gmail.com
I am attempting to manage my key logins with ssh-agent. However EVERY time I try to ssh I have to go through the same exact routing and it's getting a little old... Does anyone have any suggestions to make ssh-agent hold these values a bit more persistently?
I have this in my .bash_profile:
AGENTRUNNING=`ps x | grep agent | grep -v grep` if [ -z "$AGENTRUNNING" ]; then /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s > $HOME/.ssh/agent-env.sh fi . $HOME/.ssh/agent-env.sh > /dev/null
Then, I ssh-add once and that's it.
And if you log in on another machine with that same home directory on NFS, you'll load information for the wrong host's ssh-agent keys.
Install and use "keychain". It's leaps and bounds more reliable than this.