{"id":235,"date":"2016-12-14T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2021-05-11T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T13:59:24","slug":"ssh-keyagent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/ssh-keyagent\/","title":{"rendered":"SSH Keyagent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"While most desktop Linux OS’s have decent support for ssh-agent, it may be something you have to add to certain Linux or *BSD disto’s. I’ve been using the following to load my private key(s) the first time I login, and hold them in memory for subsequent sessions.<\/p>\n

[shell title=”~\/.bashrc” language=”true”]
\nSSH_ENV=”$HOME\/.ssh\/environment”<\/p>\n

function start_agent {
\necho “Initialising new SSH agent…”
\n(umask 066; \/usr\/bin\/ssh-agent > “${SSH_ENV}”)
\n. “${SSH_ENV}” > \/dev\/null
\n\/usr\/bin\/ssh-add;
\n}<\/p>\n

# Source SSH settings, if applicable<\/p>\n

if [ -f “${SSH_ENV}” ]; then
\n. “${SSH_ENV}” > \/dev\/null
\nps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > \/dev\/null || {
\nstart_agent;
\n}
\nelse
\nstart_agent;
\nfi<\/p>\n

if [ -z “$SSH_AUTH_SOCK” ]; then
\neval ssh-agent -s ssh-add
\nfi
\n[\/shell]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While most desktop Linux OS’s have decent support for ssh-agent, it may be something you have to add to certain Linux or *BSD disto’s. I’ve been using the following to load my private key(s) the first time I login, and hold them in memory for subsequent sessions. [shell title=”~\/.bashrc” language=”true”] SSH_ENV=”$HOME\/.ssh\/environment” function start_agent { echo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamkuj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}