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@Phundamentals
Last active July 6, 2023 00:30
Load SSH agent on bash (interactive) startup, add default SSH key, enable signing commits
This is for the gist name only.
#
# Load SSH agent and add key if it's not running already.
# Source: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/working-with-ssh-key-passphrases#auto-launching-ssh-agent-on-git-for-windows
#
# touch ~/.ssh/allowed_signers
# git config --global gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile "/c/Users/.../.ssh/allowed_signers"
# echo "$(git config --global --get user.email) namespaces=\"git\" $(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)" >> ~/.ssh/allowed_signers
# git log --show-signature
#
# START SSH AGENT ->
SSH_AGENT_ENV=~/.ssh/AGENT_ENV
agent_load_env () { test -f "${SSH_AGENT_ENV}" && . "${SSH_AGENT_ENV}" >| /dev/null ; }
agent_start () {
(umask 077; ssh-agent >| "${SSH_AGENT_ENV}")
. "${SSH_AGENT_ENV}" >| /dev/null ;
# This will set SSH_AUTH_SOCK on Windows for new processes, such as your IDE.
SETX SSH_AUTH_SOCK $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
}
agent_load_env
# agent_run_state: 0=agent running w/ key; 1=agent w/o key; 2=agent not running
agent_run_state=$(ssh-add -l >| /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?)
if [ ! "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] || [ $agent_run_state = 2 ]; then
agent_start
ssh-add -t 1200
elif [ "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] && [ $agent_run_state = 1 ]; then
ssh-add -t 1200
fi
unset SSH_AGENT_ENV
# <- END SSH AGENT
[user]
...
signingKey = C:/Users/.../.ssh/id_rsa
...
[gpg]
format = ssh
[gpg "ssh"]
allowedSignersFile = C:/Users/.../.ssh/allowed_signers
[commit]
gpgSign = true
...
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