On Nov 27, 2018 at 20:02:19, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > According to my experience, when ssh-agent is started, it is > ready store passphrase and decipher the private key. However, > it doesn't do this automatically when I type my passphrase at > a connection attempt. > > Before issuing any SSH connection, I run ssh-add and type my > passphrase. Afterwards, I can connect to any machine accepting > my key. I'm not exactly sure this is the right way to do it in > terms of security, but it does the job in terms of convenience. > :^)
Hello Étienne, I put this in my .bashrc -------------------------------------------------------------------- if [ ! -S ~/.ssh/ssh_auth_sock ]; then eval $(ssh-agent -t 43200) ln -sf "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ~/.ssh/ssh_auth_sock fi export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.ssh/ssh_auth_sock ssh-add -l | grep "The agent has no identities" && /usr/bin/ssh-add ------------------------------------------------------------------- So every time I login the first time, or when the last ssh-add command is older than 12h, I'll be asked for the passphrase of the key. Michael
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