Best way to start ssh-agent

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Hi all,

I am wondering which is the best way to start ssh-agent so its available in all terminals? The method

eval `ssh-agent`

just makes it available in the current terminal session.

Thanks a lot and best regards.

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I use normally a user systemd unit.

Some desktop environments have integrated solutions for that.

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Thank you for the suggestions. After restarting my notebook I noticed there is already an agent running with startup command:

/usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/startlxqt

I guess it is the one started by the Desktop Environment as you said. Don’t know why it wasn’t running before.

Alternatively I found here a good guide about how to set it up as a user systemd service: How to start and use ssh-agent as systemd service? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

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