On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 11:37 -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote:
...
> As far as I know that's right. Though it can be scripted into your
> login.
Been doing it so long I can't remember whom to credit, but I use the
following snippet added to the end of ~/.bash_profile:
#*************************************************************#
AGENTFILE=$HOME/.ssh/current-ssh-agent
test -f $AGENTFILE && . $AGENTFILE
if test -n "$SSH_AGENT_PID" \
&& ps xo pid,comm | grep -q "$SSH_AGENT_PID ssh-agent$"; then
if ssh-add -l >/dev/null; then
# Everything seems OK.
:
else
# Agent is running but knows no identities.
echo SSH-AGENT: No identities. Remember to run ssh-add!
fi
else
# No agent is running or AGENTFILE is lost - start a new one.
if ps xo comm | grep -q "^ssh-agent$"; then
echo SSH-AGENT: Stray ssh-agent\? Killing it.
killall -TERM ssh-agent
fi
echo SSH-AGENT: A new agent started. Remember to run ssh-add!
ssh-agent | grep -v '^echo' >$AGENTFILE
fi
. $AGENTFILE
unset AGENTFILE
#*************************************************************#
and this to ~/.bash_logout:
#*************************************************************#
if test $(w -hsf $(id -un) | wc -l) = 1; then ssh-add -D fi
#*************************************************************#
For KDE one can use a script "ssh-add.sh" containing the following in
~/.kde/Autostart to prompt for the passphrase:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 5
konsole --vt_sz 60x4--noframe --nomenubar --notoolbar --noscrollbar -e ssh-add
Watch for line-wraps on the above, and remember to
$ chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/ssh-add.sh
Phil