i played with ssh-agent a LONG time ago and wasn't impressed. but i figured i would take another stab at it now.
so i added this line to my .bash_profile as the man page suggests: [ ! "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] && exec ssh-agent -- bash --login which works great. then i tried using ssh-add. it asked for a passphrase. but its been ages since i created the identity file, so i didn't remember the passphrase. so in a rash nature i nuked the identity file. yeah, i know. looking in the man page for ssh-add it states that if the identity file doesn't exist, then it would create it. but it doesn't. it keeps spitting me a "bad key file" error. so again, i rashly nuke my .ssh, saving my config this time. =) and still ssh-add doesn't work. so i try logging out and logging back in hoping that it was ssh-agent that was at fault. no luck. does anyone have any clue what i can do? also, am i suppose to run ssh-add on the remote server or on my local machine? thanks in advance, herbert
