Re: ssh-add won't create indentity file

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herbert Ho) wrote: >looking in the man page for ssh-add it states that if the identity >file doesn't exist, then it would create it. but it doesn't. it keeps >spitting me a "bad key file" error. > >so again, i rashly nuke my .ssh, saving my config this time. =) > >and still ssh-

ssh-add won't create indentity file

i played with ssh-agent a LONG time ago and wasn't impressed. but i figured i would take another stab at it now. so i added this line to my .bash_profile as the man page suggests: [ ! "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] && exec ssh-agent -- bash --login which works great. then i tried using ssh-add. it asked fo