Startup Scripts for ssh-agent

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CSH

A couple of people contributed these *csh equivilents for those using csh or its derivatives. To the .login script, add the following:

 set
    sshAgent=/usr/bin/ssh-agent set sshAgentArgs="-c" set
    tmpFile=~/.ssh/ssh-agent-info

    #
    #  Check for existing ssh-agent process
    #
    if ( -s $tmpFile ) source $tmpFile
    if ( $?SSH_AGENT_PID ) then
      set this=`ps -elf | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent > /dev/null`
      # start ssh-agent if status is nonzero
      if (( $? != 0 ) && ( -x "$sshAgent" )) then
        $sshAgent $sshAgentArgs | head -2 > $tmpFile
        source $tmpFile
        echo "ssh agent started [${SSH_AGENT_PID}]"
        ssh-add
      endif
    endif

And, to the .logout:

    if ( $?SSH_AGENT_PID ) then
      echo "killing ssh agent [${SSH_AGENT_PID}]"
      ssh-add -D
      kill $SSH_AGENT_PID
      unset SSH_AGENT_PID
      unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK
    endif

KDE

 
Note to article: http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh#gen-keys

Adding line to .xsession when you use kdm does nothing as startkde script 
doesn't use it :(

I created directory ~/.kde/env/ and placed there following script:

#!/bin/bash
eval `ssh-agent`

I also created ~/.kde/shutdown directory and placed there:

#!/bin/bash
ssh-agent -k

and it works fine :)

Nice tutorial, it really helped me a lot :)

Kacper Bielecki