addkey

A simple set of scripts for facilitating SSH key management. Collectively, the result is to always have a single active instance of ssh-agent across shell instances, with the ability to easily add more keys by name.

Installation

Source ssh-agent-setup.sh in your shell's config, and add addkey to your path.

Note that you need to have OpenSSH installed, since this uses ssh-agent.

Usage

Assuming that ssh-agent is running (which it should be if ssh-agent-setup.sh was sourced correctly), use addkey to add keys from ~/.ssh to the agent:

addkey github

This will attempt to add ~/.ssh/github to the agent, prompting for a passphrase if necessary. Optionally:

addkey github 3600

Adds the key with a lifetime of 3600 seconds, or 1 hour.