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How to check if ssh-agent is already running in bash?


No, really, how to check if ssh-agent is already running in bash?

Answers so far don't appear to answer the original question...

Here's what works for me:

if ps -p $SSH_AGENT_PID > /dev/null
then
echo "ssh-agent is already running"
# Do something knowing the pid exists, i.e. the process with $PID is running
else
eval `ssh-agent -s`
fi

This was taken from here

ssh-agent with passwords without spawning too many processes

have a look at Keychain. It was written b people in a similar situation to yourself.
Keychain

Start ssh-agent on login

Please go through this article. You may find this very useful:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210506080335/https://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh

Just in case the above link vanishes some day, I am capturing the main piece of the solution below:

This solution from Joseph M. Reagle by way of Daniel Starin:

Add this following to your .bash_profile

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/agent-environment"

function start_agent {
echo "Initialising new SSH agent..."
/usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
echo succeeded
chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
. "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
/usr/bin/ssh-add;
}

# Source SSH settings, if applicable

if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
. "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
#ps ${SSH_AGENT_PID} doesn't work under cywgin
ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
start_agent;
}
else
start_agent;
fi

This version is especially nice since it will see if you've already started ssh-agent and, if it can't find it, will start it up and store the settings so that they'll be usable the next time you start up a shell.



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