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SSH Agent on “boot”
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:date: 2015-01-09 04:03
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:author: tyrel
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:category: Linux
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:slug: ssh-agent-on-boot
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:status: published
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I had a friend complain that he had to keep adding his ssh key to his ssh-agent every time he rebooted. I have a really easy bit of shell code you can put into your .bashrc or your .zshrc file:
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.. code-block:: bash
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SSHKEYFILE=/path/to/your/ssh/key/file
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ssh-add -l | grep -q $SSHKEYFILE
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RC=$?
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if [ $RC -eq 1 ]
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then
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ssh-add -t 86400 $SSHKEYFILE
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echo "Added key internal to keychain."
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fi
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This will check every time your bash or zsh rc file is sourced for your key in the currently added keys, and if it’s not, it will add it.
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This has the benefit of not requiring you to put in your password every time you connect to a remote machine if you password your ssh keys (which you should).
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