==== Key add from .sshrc ==== This works perfectly in Mint, Fedora, Debian and Alma; This is loaded from [[.bash_profile]] for all logins. # User specific aliases and functions # Add a personal key to the keyring... Host=$(hostname -s | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z') SSH_ENV="${HOME}/.ssh/agent-${Host}" function start_agent { echo "Initialising new SSH agent..." /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${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 ${SSH_AGENT_PID} doesn't work under cywgin ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || { start_agent; } else start_agent; fi