-
-
Save aflondono/524479208ea5733041363bd7ffe7c5d8 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Reuse existing ssh-agent or start a new one
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # This is a fork created to be used with Git Bash that comes with the installation | |
| # of Git for Windows (https://gitforwindows.org/), and it was tested only on that | |
| # environment. | |
| # Append this to your .bashrc to reuse an existing ssh-agent, or if you don't have | |
| # a .bashrc file (normally located in Windows under 'C:\Users\username'), then | |
| # make this your .bashrc file. | |
| LOGNAME=username | |
| GOT_AGENT=0 | |
| # List all the files that follow the SSH agent socket pattern, with the newest | |
| # one at the top of the list. The top one is probably the one we want to use | |
| for FILE in $(ls -t /tmp/ssh-*/agent.[0-9]* 2>/dev/null) | |
| do | |
| # As the values in FILE are socket file names, the `ls` command adds a `=` | |
| # at the end of the string. Here we are removing that last character. | |
| SOCK_FILE=${FILE%?} | |
| # Now check if there are intances of the SSH agent running | |
| PIDLIST=($(ps -fu $LOGNAME | awk '/ssh-agent/ {print $2;}')) | |
| COUNT=${#PIDLIST[@]} | |
| if [ $COUNT -gt "1" ] | |
| then | |
| echo "Multiple ($COUNT) ssh-agents are running. The first available will be selected" | |
| fi | |
| for PID in "${PIDLIST[@]}" | |
| do | |
| # If PID was not set, get out of here to start a new ssh-agent | |
| if [ -z $PID ] | |
| then | |
| echo "No ssh-agent is running. Will start new agent..." | |
| break | |
| else | |
| SSH_AUTH_SOCK=${SOCK_FILE}; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; | |
| SSH_AGENT_PID=${PID}; export SSH_AGENT_PID; | |
| ssh-add -l > /dev/null | |
| if [ $? != 2 ] | |
| then | |
| GOT_AGENT=1 | |
| echo "Agent pid $PID" | |
| break | |
| fi | |
| fi | |
| done | |
| if [ $GOT_AGENT = 1 ] | |
| then | |
| break | |
| fi | |
| echo "Skipping file $FILE" | |
| done | |
| # If no ssh-agent was found, then start one and add a key. If your key is not in | |
| # the default location, or if it doesn't use the default name ("~/.ssh/id_rsa" or | |
| # in Windows "C:\Users\username\.ssh\id_rsa"), then add the correct path and key | |
| # name to the `ssh-add` command. Like `ssh-add /c/your/key/path/my_id_rsa_key` | |
| if [ $GOT_AGENT = 0 ] | |
| then | |
| eval `ssh-agent` | |
| ssh-add | |
| fi |
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # Set the already running ssh-agent so that the Windows environment recognises it, | |
| # i.e. Visual Studio 2017 recognises the ssh-agent. | |
| # This will need to be run after an ssh-agent was already started and set, and before running | |
| # Visual Studio 2017. | |
| # I have set up my Git-Bash so that just starting it will start a new ssh-agent, or set one if | |
| # one is already running. | |
| # So first run Git-Bash, which will set the variables used below. | |
| # Then run this script, and close Git-Bash. | |
| # Finally start VS 2017. | |
| # Source of this code: | |
| # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48885315/get-visual-studio-2017-to-work-with-ssh-agent-ssh-add-for-git/49071597 | |
| if [[ `uname` == MINGW* ]] | |
| then | |
| setx SSH_AUTH_SOCK $SSH_AUTH_SOCK > /dev/null | |
| setx SSH_AGENT_PID $SSH_AGENT_PID > /dev/null | |
| echo "Done. Close Git-Bash for the change to take effect, and restart Visual Studio." | |
| fi |
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment