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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

> For those with multiple peer shells and no X-parented ssh-agent, you
> will need to run ssh-agent ONCE, like so:
> 
> 	ssh-agent > ~/tmp/ssh-agent.out
> 
> and then for each shell, you need to run:
> 
> 	eval `cat ~/tmp/ssh-agent.out`
> 
> and then run the ssh-add command from above.

I keep the following in my .bashrc and use the `agent' command to
initialize the ssh-agent.

# Allow `agent' to start the ssh-agent usefully on all running
# bash instances.  SIGQUIT was chosen because it is ignored by
# bash by default, even in non-interactive shells, so that a
# shell not trapping it by some chance won't be terminated.
if test -f ~/.ssh/agent; then 
    . ~/.ssh/agent
fi
function agent {
    killall -q ssh-agent
    ssh-agent > ~/.ssh/agent
    killall -QUIT bash >/dev/null 2>&1
    ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity
    ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa
}
trap -- '. ~/.ssh/agent' SIGQUIT

-- 
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 It is better to be seen at the opera with a man
 than at mass with a woman."
--De Maintenon
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