Re: ssh-agent without graphical display manager? how?

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 08:55 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I'm in the process of converting from nfs to sshfs on my home-grown
> file-server/backup-server computer. This computer does not run Xwindows
> or any other graphical manager. I control it mostly by logging into it
> using ssh.  But when I log in this way, it appears that ssh-agent is
> not started, and consequently, I cannot use ssh-add on it.  I can, of
> course, use ssh-add on my desktop computer, but that is not where the
> private key for the backup server is stored. Has anyone confronted
> this situation and worked out a solution? Advice? 

Do you actually want to start a new agent on the machine you're sshing
to?

Or can you just forward your existing agent when you connect (ssh -A),
then run ssh-add on the remote machine (the one with the private key on
it)?

Richard