ssh-agent start upon login to RHEL 5 machine
---> All credit goes here <--- In case that ever disappears: place in .bash_profile ####SSHagent settings#### SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment" function start_agent { echo "Initializing new SSH agent..." /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}" echo succeeded chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}" . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null /usr/bin/ssh-add; } # Source SSH settings, if applicable if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || { start_agent; } else start_agent; fi