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...Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: Documentation AssignedTo: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org ReportedBy: hauser at acm.org An experienced user recommends to me: <<I start ssh-agent in .xsession as follows: # check if ssh-agent is running SSH_AGENT_RUNNING=`ps x | grep 'ssh-agent' |grep -v grep` if [ "$SSH_AGENT_RUNNING" = "" ]; then # start it if not eval `ssh-agent -s` # also add default entity ( sleep 5; env DISPLAY=:0 SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/local/bin/gnome-ssh-askpass ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity ~/.ssh/id_dsa...

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500 ------- Additional Comments From djm at mindrot.org 2003-02-24 12:43 ------- I think that: [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] && eval `ssh-agent -s` [ -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] || ssh-add -l >/dev/null 2>&1 || ssh-add Is as effective and a lot more concise. On the other hand, fragile heuristics like: > export