[Bug 536894] [NEW] Feature request: make ssh-agent call ssh-add automatically

[Benjamin Thomas]

Public bug reported:

It would be nice if ssh-agent was a little easier to use.  Basically
having to call ssh-add yourself manually is a pain.

See how it works on Mac OS X
http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2007/11/28/ssh_agent_leopard/

Basically when you try and ssh into a server that your public key
matches on, instead of asking for the password to access that key it
calls ssh-add on that key, so for this session, the next time you try
and ssh with that key you don't have to type in a password.

I could easily add a script that calls ssh-add automatically when my
shell starts up, but then every time I start a new shell (or session
really) I would have to authenticate.

Basically, it would be nice if the 'ssh-agent' command could just call
ssh-add automatically.  This doesn't seem like a security vulnerability
and would make things a lot nicer.  It would be really easy to add this
as a flag to ssh-agent, so those that like the old behavior would still
get it by default.

** Affects: openssh (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Feature request:  make ssh-agent call ssh-add automatically
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/536894
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