SSH and agent article (was: scp in batch mode)

[Christian Vogel]

Hi,

here is what I used to use for a long time to have only one
ssh-agent running on my machine(s), so I don't use the spawn-subcommand form :-)

> #!/bin/sh
> 
> ###
> #  warning: This script should be sourced from your
> #  login-files!
> ###
> 
> AGENT_SCRIPT=~/.ssh/AGENT-"$HOSTNAME"
> 
> function start_ssh_agent(){
>         ( cd / ; ssh-agent -s ) | grep -v "^echo" >$AGENT_SCRIPT
>         chmod 600 $AGENT_SCRIPT
>         . $AGENT_SCRIPT
>         ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa
>         ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity
> }
> 
> if [ -f $AGENT_SCRIPT ] ; then
>         . $AGENT_SCRIPT
>         if ! kill -0 $SSH_AGENT_PID 2>/dev/null ; then
>                 echo "*** SSH-AGENT DIED. STARTING NEW SSH-AGENT ***"
>                 start_ssh_agent
>         fi
> else
>         echo "*** STARTING NEW SSH-AGENT ***"
>         start_ssh_agent
> fi
> 
> 
> unset start_ssh_agent

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