*TL:DR;* I'm looking for options to reliably start and manage an ssh-agent daemon in Cygwin.
Using ssh-agent in cygwin seems very compelling. OpenSSH client config AddKeysToAgent option and ssh-agent -t option allow me to keep keys unlocked for limited times the way that I'd like, and unlock upon use instead of upon login, and avoid having to manually ssh-add. But I'm left with the issue of "how can all of my shell windows use the same daemon" and "how can I get the daemon to start automatically without spawning an army of unmanaged zombies"? I have to assume that ssh-agent is very popular to use, and that copy-pasting 6-12 lines of fragile, custom bash code into one's profile doesn't have to be the primary way to get into this club. So, how do you guys manage ssh-agent? Is it really a niche solution, and there's some better way to get similar SSO-like benefits I should know about instead? Please advise, thanks folks! -- *Jesse Thompson | Systems and Network Administrator* *Webformix Wireless Internet <http://www.webformix.com/>* *67 NW Hawthorne Ave, Bend, OR 97703-2915* *Phone: 541-323-9312* -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
