After being hesitant of using ssh-agent for quite a while now, I finally decided to use it. I am typically on Windows working with git-bash. I was glad to find a helpful question about Running SSH Agent when starting Git Bash on Windows.
However, I did not find a question answering the opposite problem. How do you automatically close the ssh-agent when closing the git-bash.
A blog post about best pratices with ssh-agent triggered this idea. However, the solution there doesn't seem to fit 100% to my environment. I am not too familiar with all the configuration possibilities of Linux systems. But I figured that for .logout and.bash_logout to work you need to (a) start the shell as a login shell and (b) need to leave the shell using exit or logout commands.
Luckily, (a) seems to be the standard for git-bash. With the solution of the blog post the ssh-agent is stopped when I exit,logout the git-bash. As a Windows guy, however, most of the time I close everything - including command prompts - by means of the UI (the X marks the spot). From that some questions arise:
- Can you adapt the
.logout,.bash_logoutsolution to also consider closing the git-bash via UI? - If not, what would be a solid alternative?
- In either way, when multiple git-bash windows are open, how would you prevent stopping the ssh-agent as soon as the first git-bash is closed? Ideally, ssh-agent should only be stopped after the last git-bash is closed.
- Is there a completely different, preferable way of managing ssh-agent in a Windows environment.
