[PLUG] Using ssh-agent and ssh-add

[Robert Citek]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Robert Citek wrote:
>
>> This is a simplified version of what I have in my ~/.profile :
>>
>> [ -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] && tty -s && exec ssh-agent bash --login
>> [ -n "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] && tty -s && {
>>  echo -e "\nAdding keys to ssh-agent ..."
>>  ssh-add ~/.ssh/*_rsa
>>  echo
>>  ssh-add -l
>> }
>
> Robert,
>
>    Now that's very interesting.
>
>> Try this on a test user account before integrating it into your real
>> account.
>
>    Setting up a test user needs to wait until I have some time to devote to
> this.

You can try the manual way by typing these two commands after you have
logged in to your account:

exec ssh-agent bash --login
ssh-add ~/.ssh/*_rsa

The other stuff is overhead that is needed when in the ~/.profile.

Regards,
- Robert