Learning Node.js Development

Starting up the SSH agent

Now that our keys are generated, the last thing we need to do is start up the SSH agent and add this key so it knows that it exists. We'll do this by running two commands. These are:

• eval
• ssh-add

First up we'll run eval, and then we'll open some quotes and inside the quotes, we'll use the dollar sign and open and close some parentheses just like this:

eval "$()"

Inside our parentheses we'll type ssh-agent with the s flag:

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

This will start up the SSH agent program and it will also print the process ID to confirm it is indeed running, and as shown, we get Agent pid 1116:

The process ID is obviously ...