Hi Predrag, I am not sure that I am getting your question right, but for starting ssh agent on my lap, I simply uncomment (or create?) the following in my .xinitrc ... if [ "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ]; then ssh-add -D < /dev/null eval `ssh-agent -s -k` fi ...
For starting (and keeping alive) a ssh agent on a remote host I use http://www.funtoo.org/Keychain If the keys of the remote host are password protected, the password needs to be typed in upon any (re)start of the remote host. I hope I was on topic. Regards, On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Predrag Punosevac <punoseva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Misc, > > This is a rather trivial question. What is the recommended way of > starting ssh-agent when upon ssh login into the remote host. Namely I > have a remote host which is used as a gateway to a bunch of machines > whose ssh keys are password protected. I have > > AddKeysToAgent yes > > in my ~/.ssh/config file as well as > > xidle -program "/usr/bin/ssh-add -D" -timeout 300 & > > in my .xsession file. Everything works nice and neat when I am on my > desktop but I want to replicate functionality when I ssh to a headless > (no X) shell gateway. > > Thanks, > Predrag
