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ssh-agent

Spawn an SSH Agent process. An SSH Agent holds SSH keys decrypted in memory until removed or the process is killed. See also ssh-add, which can add and manage keys held by an SSH Agent. More information: <https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent>.

Maintainer: Debian OpenSSH Maintainers <[email protected]>
Homepage: http://www.openssh.com/
Section: net

All systems: curl cmd.cat/ssh-agent.sh
Debian: apt-get install openssh-client
Ubuntu: apt-get install openssh-client
Alpine: apk add openssh-client
Arch Linux: pacman -S plan9port
Kali Linux: apt-get install openssh-client
CentOS: yum install openssh-clients
Fedora: dnf install openssh-clients
Windows (WSL2): sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openssh-client
OS X: brew install plan9port
Raspbian: apt-get install openssh-client
Dockerfile: dockerfile.run/ssh-agent
Docker: docker run cmd.cat/ssh-agent ssh-agent powered by Commando

Spawn an SSH Agent process. An SSH Agent holds SSH keys decrypted in memory until removed or the process is killed. See also ssh-add, which can add and manage keys held by an SSH Agent. More information: <https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent>.

Start an SSH Agent for the current shell:
eval $(ssh-agent)

Kill the currently running agent:
ssh-agent -k

ssh-agent

Install

Spawn an SSH Agent process. An SSH Agent holds SSH keys decrypted in memory until removed or the process is killed. See also ssh-add, which can add and manage keys held by an SSH Agent. More information: <https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent>.