ssh.md

ssh

Roger Peng's notes (now gone, but available on internet archive)

stackoverflow answer re avoiding passphrase: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25721662/897303

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa &> /dev/null

I really don't understand this; seems you need to run both ssh-agent and ssh-add in each shell

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GitHub instructions re ssh-agent

I think this is just needed on a Mac

• Start ssh-agent in the background (in ~/.bash_profile?)

  eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
  

• Modify (or create) ~/.ssh/config

  Host *
    AddKeysToAgent yes
    UseKeychain yes
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  

• Add your private key to the ssh-agent

  ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  

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To change passphrase:

ssh-keygen -p