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Run ssh-agent via fish shell
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fish-agent.sh
#!/bin/bash
#
# Convert ssh-agent output to fish shell
#
eval "$(ssh-agent)" >/dev/null
echo "set SSH_AUTH_SOCK \"$SSH_AUTH_SOCK\"; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK"
echo "set SSH_AGENT_PID \"$SSH_AGENT_PID\"; export SSH_AGENT_PID"
@tim3trick
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To remove the agent pid information replace eval (ssh-agent -c) with eval (ssh-agent -c | head -n2)

@edouard-lopez
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@thibault-ketterer would you care create a MR of your snippet into https://github.com/danhper/fish-ssh-agent?

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matu3ba commented Mar 23, 2023

I am astonished, that no solution bothers to cleanup started agents, ie with on of those for security:

trap "kill $SSH_AGENT_PID" exit
trap "ssh-agent -k" exit

See also https://rabexc.org/posts/pitfalls-of-ssh-agents. Ideally the WM has a ssh-agent instance one could use instead of spawning a new one in each terminal.

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