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Auto launching ssh agent when git starts
Todd Weed Partridge edited this page Apr 19, 2016
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If you want your passphrase to be 'remembered' for a session (or configurable timeout period) you will need to setup an ssh-agent process to handle this key.
Recent versions of git for windows 2.x come with an ssh agent startup script and the installer also checks if an ssh agent is currently running and asks you to kill this process.
Run the ssh agent:
start-ssh-agent.cmd
This should work both in a cmd
and bash
shell and can be included in ~/.profile
or ~/.bashrc
.
The Github instructions are still valid but not needed anymore.
To launch, put in ~/.profile
or ~/.bashrc
:
# ssh-agent auto-launch (0 = agent running with key; 1 = w/o key; 2 = not run.)
agent_run_state=$(ssh-add -l >| /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?)
if [ $agent_run_state = 2 ]; then
eval $(ssh-agent -s)
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
elif [ $agent_run_state = 1 ]; then
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
fi
To close on shell exit, put in ~/.bash_logout
:
ssh-agent -k
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