linux ssh agent and add : avoid repeating command

Question

When I'm deploying my application from my server using capifony, I need to start by typping those commands for the authentication to work :

$(ssh-agent)
ssh-add

If I disconnect, I have to retype this otherwise I get the following error :

--> Updating code base with remote_cache strategy
 ** [xx :: err] Error writing to authentication socket.
 ** [xx :: err] Permission denied (publickey).
 ** [xx :: err] fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

I'mnot an expert, what does the ssh-agent and ssh-add ? How to avoid repeating this all the time ?

Thanks a lot !

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '15 at 14:13

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Enable ForwardAgent in your ssh configuration.

$ cat ~/.ssh/config
ForwardAgent yes

Then open a new shell to have you agent up and running.

answered Aug 03 '15 at 14:13

vinni_f

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hi! can you elaborate on this ? I had no config file so I created it and added ForwardAgent yes. does not seem to be the right move – Sébastien Aug 04 '15 at 14:05
Did you started a new shell afterward? are you on linux or something like sygwin? – vinni_f Aug 04 '15 at 14:34
here on linux. did I do the right thing in putting this in a new config file? – Sébastien Aug 04 '15 at 14:35
yes creating the file is ok! do you know on which remote server your script connects to? if yes can you dump the result of ssh -vvv on pastebin or equivalent. – vinni_f Aug 04 '15 at 14:39
An other possible cause might be that your ssh key is not in a std location or name. ssh -vvv will tell us. – vinni_f Aug 04 '15 at 14:41
ok, it worked adding my two lines to ~/.profile file if you edit your answer I can accept it – Sébastien Aug 04 '15 at 15:00
what 2 lines? what is your linux distro? – vinni_f Aug 04 '15 at 16:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '15 at 17:26

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OK, the following resolved my issue with Linux Ubuntu 15.04.

i added the follwoing two lines at the end of ~/.profile

So it becomes :

sudo nano ~/.profile

#go at the end and writeout

$(ssh-agent)
ssh-add

answered Aug 04 '15 at 17:26

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