Re: ssh-agent and ssh-add automatically

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:49:19AM +0200,  David Danovich <David.Danovich@huji.ac.il> wrote  a message of 28 lines which said:

> and everything works fine. The problem is that every time I open a new

You should run ssh-agent only once when you log in, typically in the ~/.xsession (Debian handles it automatically, starting the ssh-agent before running .xession, but it is trivial to add). I suggest in ~/.xsession (I assume you run X11):

ssh-agent my-favorite-window-manager
ssh-add < /dev/null

If you do not run X11, the simplest thing to do:

eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add

for each session. Received on Wed Dec 18 12:10:33 2002

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