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Áron Pop Adorján
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Reputation: 453

Can I permanently add ssh private key to my user agent?

Somewhat of a noob question but everyday at work when I open git bash I have to start the ssh-agent daemon and I have to add my ssh-private key to the user-agent so that Github knows who I am.

  1. eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
  2. ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

If I dont do this I cannot pull/push to github.

It gets a little annoying to have to do this everyday, is there a way to add it permanently?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 14421

Answers (2)

G. Sapph
G. Sapph

Reputation: 131

Another way that it solved myself the same problem, was moving the private key, e.g id_rsa, to the default ssh key location, ~/.ssh.

cp /your/key/location/id_rsa ~/.ssh

It seems that for some reason, when you add an identity from a different location with the -i option of the ssh-add command, it doesn't add it permanently.

Upvotes: 1

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 530852

Instead of using ssh-agent, put the following in your .ssh/config file:

Host github.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

An agent is primarily useful either to avoid creating a large number of configurations in .ssh/config (as any connection will attempt to use a key found in the agent), or for allowing remote SSH sessions to reach back to your local machine for necessary keys.

Upvotes: 14

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