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ssh-add keys in your bashrc
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* This script ensures that your shell always has an agent with your preferred keys added. | |
On macos you do not need to start the agent explicitly. Just add the keys. If your key | |
requires a password, and it should, you will not be prompted for it again as long as | |
agent maintains your key. Simply putting ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa in your .bash_profile | |
causes you to get prompted for your password for every shell and encourages people to | |
remove the password, which they shouldn't. This was created to solve that properly. | |
* Place this file at ~/.ssh/agentrc use it in ~/.bash_profile with: | |
[[ -f ~/.ssh/agentrc ]] && source ~/.ssh/agentrc | |
* You can copy-paste the next 5 lines to get and use this script: | |
curl -sLo ~/.ssh/agentrc https://gist.githubusercontent.com/RichardBronosky/cfdc69ec0f3edd941dccdacbab45c4e2/raw/agentrc | |
cat >> ~/.bash_profile <<'EOF' | |
[[ -f ~/.ssh/agentrc ]] && source ~/.ssh/agentrc | |
EOF | |
DOCS | |
for key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa # Add additional keys here | |
do | |
ssh-add -l | \ | |
grep -q "$key" || \ | |
ssh-add $key | |
done | |
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Yes, I know I specify
.bash_profile
and not.bashrc
as stated in the description. Modern macOS doesn't have a.bashrc
by default, though I still google search for it.