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Using ssh-agent for password-less ssh access

Instead of typing in the password to decrypt my private SSH key every time I want to ssh to a host I use a program called ssh-agent, which is included in the openssh-clients package in CentOS.
When you run ssh-agent it creates a long-running process that holds decrypted keys and spits out some environment variables that [...]

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