new option ssh-add -v to verify if key is loaded into the agent

[Andy Tsouladze]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On 04/07/2011 03:12 AM, Konrad Bucheli wrote:
>> In a shell script I need to verify if a key belonging to a given public
>> key file is already loaded into the agent. To achieve this, I added a
>> new option -v to ssh-add which does this verification.
>
> Couldn't this already be implemented by grepping the output of
> ssh-add -L ?  Is there a compelling need to introduce (and maintain) a
> new command-line argument for this?

ssh-add without any argument shows which keys are loaded, like this:

% ssh-add
Identity added: /home/andyt/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/andyt/.ssh/id_rsa)

For some reason, man page does not mention this.

Regards,

Andy

Dr Andy Tsouladze
Sr Unix/Storage SysAdmin