Difference between revisions of "ssh-agent user setup and on demand ssh-add"
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automatically used for authentication when logging in to other machines using ssh(1). | automatically used for authentication when logging in to other machines using ssh(1). | ||
| − | add the following lines to .bash_profile in the user home directory | + | to enable (assuming it is already installed) add the following lines to .bash_profile in the user home directory |
SSHAGENT=/usr/bin/ssh-agent | SSHAGENT=/usr/bin/ssh-agent | ||
SSHAGENTARGS="-s" | SSHAGENTARGS="-s" | ||
Revision as of 20:48, 20 January 2014
DESCRIPTION (from man page)
ssh-agent is a program to hold private keys used for public key authentication (RSA, DSA, ECDSA). The idea is that
ssh-agent is started in the beginning of an X-session or a login session, and all other windows or programs are
started as clients to the ssh-agent program. Through use of environment variables the agent can be located and
automatically used for authentication when logging in to other machines using ssh(1).
to enable (assuming it is already installed) add the following lines to .bash_profile in the user home directory
SSHAGENT=/usr/bin/ssh-agent SSHAGENTARGS="-s" if [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" -a -x "$SSHAGENT" ]; then eval `$SSHAGENT $SSHAGENTARGS` trap "kill $SSH_AGENT_PID" 0 fi
