Proper way to use 'ssh-agent' and 'ssh-add' ?

[Robert Brockway]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, William Park wrote:

> What is proper way to use 'ssh-agent' and 'ssh-add'?
>
> Manpage says, 'ssh-agent' is to be run within login console, like
>    eval `ssh-agent -s`
> and killed with
>    eval `ssh-agent -s -k`
> If I put that in ~/.profile, then I have to type my passphrase on every
> login console or xterm.  Very painful.
>
> I would like to run 'ssh-add' once, either at console or Xterm; and,
> after that, all my ssh activities should lookup 'ssh-agent', whether I'm
> at virtual consoles or Xterms.

I have the following at the end of my ~/.xsession, to use ssh-agent with 
X:

# Allow ssh-agent to kick off the window manager ($MANAGER)
ssh-agent bash -c "ssh-add < /dev/null && $MANAGER"

$MANAGER is the full path to your window manager set earlier in the 
script.

Rob

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