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SSH agent systemd service
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ssh-agent.service
[Unit]
Description=OpenSSH Agent
[Service]
Type=simple
Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK="%t/ssh-agent.socket"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh-agent -D -t 14400 -a "${SSH_AUTH_SOCK}"
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
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This goes into ${HOME}/.config/systemd/user/ssh-agent.service.

After this is done, you can run systemctl --user daemon-reload to make it visible. Then, run systemctl --user enable ssh-agent.service to enable it, and it will start on the next login (or you can just start it yourself).

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danielkrajnik commented Jan 1, 2022 •
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how to access SSH_AUTH_SOCK from a system unit file run as a User=?

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