On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Paul Mullen wrote:

> Manually running ssh-agent will start up another process, but it won't
> export any environment variables.  You have to do that yourself.

   True.

> (This is unnecesssary if an ssh-agent process was already started
> automatically at login, either via an X display manager or
> ~/.bash_profile.)

   And why it's not automatically started at login, from ~/.bash_profile, is
another issue needing resolution.

> Since you don't have any ssh environment variables set on your typha
> login, kill any existing ssh-agent processes that belong to you (`killall
> ssh-agent`) and start a fresh process. This time, run `eval $(ssh-agent)`.
> It should only output a single line, "Agent pid nnnn". Now, you should
> have environment variables set. Verify with `env | grep SSH`.

   Done.

   Still cannot connect since ssh tells me there's no identity file
id_ed25519 which does exist. Quite puzzling ... to me, at least.

Thanks, Paul,

Rich
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