On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I just want to give an update to this thread. I got lots of replays off > the list as well but not the answer I was looking for > > For now Iexperimented with the single > > eval `ssh-agent -t 60` > > in my .profile file
with that you start a new ssh-agent with every ssh session. after some time you will have a lot of ssh-agent processes on your box. > > and > > AddKeysToAgent yes > > in my > > ~/.ssh/config > > file. Everything works as I wont but there is big caveat. ssh-agent > doesn't get killed after I log out so it looks like this would be very > easy to abuse. I could kill ssh-agent after some time let say 10 > minutes with the cron job. Reading again through ssh-agent man pages I > don't see expiration switch but it might be somehow possible to tie > ssh-agent proce to the PID of current ssh login. I actaully feel > unconfortable leaving ssh-agent -t 60 in .profile until I learn how to > kill it automatically upon log out. Maybe ssh agent forwarding would be better for you (ssh -A). > > Predrag
