Ssh-agent Script

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        This checks to see if you have ssh-agent running already, and if it's not, it starts it for you.
This may be taking a risk by writing your environment settings to a file that someone can read.

I don't tend to use this one anymore, I have a more sneaky one now:
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/10897
I figured out that you don't need to record the environment,
you can actually re-create it based on what files are in /tmp

#!/bin/bash

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment.$HOSTNAME"

if [ -x /usr/bin/ssh-agent ]
then
    SSH_AGENT=/usr/bin/ssh-agent
    SSH_ADD=/usr/bin/ssh-add
else
    echo "Can't find ssh-agent"
    SSH_AGENT=/bin/false
    SSH_ADD=/bin/false
fi

start_agent () {

    printf "Starting new SSH agent... "
    $SSH_AGENT > "${SSH_ENV}"
    if [ $? = 0 ]
    then
        echo "OK"
        printf "3s|^echo|#echo|\nw\n\q\n" | ed "${SSH_ENV}" >/dev/null 2>&1
        chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
        . "${SSH_ENV}"
    else
        echo "ERROR"
    fi
    $SSH_ADD -l | grep : || {
        $SSH_ADD;
    }

}
#
# Source SSH settings, if there
#
if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
    . "${SSH_ENV}"
    #ps ${SSH_AGENT_PID} doesn't work under cywgin
    ps -fu$LOGNAME | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID}.*ssh-agent$ >/dev/null
    if [ $? != 0 ]
    then
        start_agent;
    else
        $SSH_ADD -l | grep : || {
            echo "Agent is running, but has no keys..."
            $SSH_ADD
        }
    fi
else
     start_agent;
fi

And add this to .bashrc / .kshrc

alias ssh_agent='. $HOME/.ssh/ssh_agent'
SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment.$HOSTNAME

Tags:
• ssh
• ssh-agent