Before adding a new SSH key to the ssh-agent to manage your keys, you should have checked for existing SSH keys and generated a new SSH key.
\nDoing this weakens the security, but only if someone has access to your account or your system has already been compromised.
\nSSH-AGENT is not a daemon and must be started upon each login which will ask for the passphrase. You *could* NOHUP the command so it stays active between reboots. But I'd avoid doing this.<\/p>\n
Start the ssh-agent in the background.<\/p>\n
$ eval \"$(ssh-agent -s)\"\n> Agent pid 59566<\/pre>\nAdd your SSH private key to the ssh-agent. If you created your key with a different name, or if you are adding an existing key that has a different name, replace id_rsa in the command with the name of your private key file.<\/p>\n
$ ssh-add ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent Before adding a new SSH key to the ssh-agent to manage your keys, you should have checked for existing SSH keys and generated a new SSH key. Doing this weakens the security, but only if someone has access to your account or your system has already been compromised. … Continue reading SSH Agent<\/span>