Tony Schreiner wrote on Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:01:23 -0400:
ssh-agent $SHELL
which will not need the above step, but will start another shell, so you will need to exit twice to logout.
This works, thanks. There's nothing of that mentioned in man ssh-agent. That also means I have to execute ssh-agent $SHELL and ssh-add each time I login and want to use forwarding, right?
If you are running GNOME, there is also the gnome-ssh-askpass
Not using a GUI.
Kai