I have a site as a remote Git repo pulling from Bitbucket.com using an SSH alias. I can manually start the ssh-agent on my server but I have to do this every time I login via SSH.
I manually start the ssh-agent:
eval ssh-agent $SHELL
Then I add the agent:
ssh-add ~/.ssh/bitbucket_id
Then it shows up when I do:
ssh-add -l
And I'm good to go. Is there any way to automate this process so I don't have to do it every time I login? The server is running RedHat 6.2 (Santiago).
On most Linux systems, ssh-agent is automatically configured and run at login, and no additional actions are required to use it. However, an SSH key must still be created for the user. The ssh-agent command outputs commands to set certain environment variables in the shell.
Adding a key to your ssh-agent on LINUX/OSX On OSX this is automatic, on Linux you may need to do it manually or with a script. To load your key into the ssh-agent simply run ssh-add ~/. ssh/<keyname>. If you password protected your private key you will be asked to enter the password.
just running the command "ssh-add" and enter the password once, command line will not prompt you for the password again. You don't need any arguments; just running ssh-add will automatically add ~/.
Please go through this article. You may find this very useful:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210506080335/https://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh
Just in case the above link vanishes some day, I am capturing the main piece of the solution below:
This solution from Joseph M. Reagle by way of Daniel Starin:
Add this following to your
.bash_profile
SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/agent-environment" function start_agent { echo "Initialising new SSH agent..." /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}" echo succeeded chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}" . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null /usr/bin/ssh-add; } # Source SSH settings, if applicable if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null #ps ${SSH_AGENT_PID} doesn't work under cywgin ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || { start_agent; } else start_agent; fi
This version is especially nice since it will see if you've already started ssh-agent and, if it can't find it, will start it up and store the settings so that they'll be usable the next time you start up a shell.
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