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title: 'SSH Agent'
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---
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Autostarting an ssh-agent service
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## Systemd Service
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A local service works for this. For example `~/.config/systemd/user/ssh-agent.service`
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```
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[Unit]
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Description=SSH key agent
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[Service]
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Type=simple
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Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t/ssh-agent.socket
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ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh-agent -D -a $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
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[Install]
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WantedBy=default.target
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```
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Enable the systemd service
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`systemctl --user enable --now ssh-agent`
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## Shell environment variable
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The shell needs to know about the ssh-agent. In the case of fish, add this snippet to your config.
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`set SSH_AUTH_SOCK /run/user/1000/ssh-agent.socket; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK`
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## SSH config
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Modify the `~/.ssh/config` to add new keys automatically.
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```
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AddKeysToAgent yes
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```
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