A tool to help manage ssh-agent processes.
ssh-agent-canonicalize will create a single "canon" agent and kill all other
agent processes. It will then print the appropriate shell commands to configure
your environment for the canon agent, and invoke ssh-add if your agent process
is currently empty.
Repeated invocation of ssh-agent-canonicalize will leave the canon agent
running so you can save yourself from hundreds of errant agents running all the
time.
Put ssh-agent-canonicalize on your PATH, then:
eval $(ssh-agent-canonicalize)
The canonical agent environment file location is
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ssh-agent-canonicalize/env.source. If $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is
not set, then /tmp/user/$(id -u)/ssh-agent-canonicalize/env.source is used
instead.
ssh-add will attempt to add the default ~/.ssh/id_* keyfiles when invoked
with no arguments. If you want to use specific keyfiles, add them to
~/.ssh/.ssh-agent-default-keys (one relative filepath per line).
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.