On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 05:31:43PM +0200, Kai Schaetzl enlightened us:
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?
Keychain handles that for you.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/
Matt