Keychain

[jabr at abreau.net (John Abreau)]

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jbk <jbk at mail2.gis.net> writes:

> No, this keychain is an open source shell script available from Gentoo that
> utilizes ssh-agent in such a manner that it is possible to start mutiple shells
> with out multiple instances of ssh-agent being generated each time.

If you use the "eval `ssh-agent`" syntax, you get that behavior. What 
I do on my home machine is 

    ssh-agent | head -2 > ~/.ssh/agent-id
    source ~/.ssh/agent-id
    ssh-add

and my .bashrc contains 

    [ -e ~/.ssh/agent-id ] && source ~/.ssh/agent-id

I just have to start an ssh-agent once after rebooting the machine, 
then I just leave it running for weeks or months at a time. Every 
instance of bash I start up after that uses the one ssh-agent instance.

I haven't actually tried this on Windows, but given how well cygwin 
works in general, I would expect this to work correctly as well.

Note that the "head -2" is to eliminate the "echo" command that 
ssh-agent prints after the two "export" commands, because running that 
"echo" command from within the .bashrc causes scp and sftp to fail.


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