ssh-agent user setup and on demand ssh-add

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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

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