The SSH agent is usually spawned by running eval $(ssh-agent), however
this spawns a new SSH agent at every invocation. This project provides
an ssh-agent wrapper called ssh-agents that is capable of spawning
an SSH agent and caching the environment variables for later invocation.
- One SSH agent across all terminals
- Add all un-encrypted SSH keys to the agent upon spawning. Please note
that encrypted SSH keys can only be added via
ssh-addafter having started the agent. - Ability to have different keys in different agents for security purposes.
To use multi-SSH agents, start ssh agent with the --name flag. The
given name is expected to be a folder under ~/.ssh/name containing the
keys to include in the agent.
Clone this repository and run make PREFIX=/usr/local install to
install it or simply download the ssh-agents file and
place it somewhere in your PATH and do not forget to make it executable.
Add the following snippet to your shell rc file, such as ~/.profile,
~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc or other similar files.
eval "$(ssh-agents)"If you intend to use a different ssh agent name, pass the flag --name
to the ssh-agents call within the eval.
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| Wael Nasreddine |
All source code is licensed under the MIT License.