Use pshazz ssh agent in git-bash or putty?

[bcomnes]

Storing the ssh decryption key in the windows credential manager is a brilliant setup.

Do you know if its possible, or which part of pshazz could be reused to enable an ssh-agent that works with git-bash or putty?

[bcomnes]

Just found https://github.com/lukesampson/askpass

Looks like the following gets this working in git-bash

~/.bashrc

# Note: ~/.ssh/environment should not be used, as it
#       already has a different purpose in SSH.

env=~/.ssh/agent.env

# Note: Don't bother checking SSH_AGENT_PID. It's not used
#       by SSH itself, and it might even be incorrect
#       (for example, when using agent-forwarding over SSH).

agent_is_running() {
    if [ "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then
        # ssh-add returns:
        #   0 = agent running, has keys
        #   1 = agent running, no keys
        #   2 = agent not running
        ssh-add -l >/dev/null 2>&1 || [ $? -eq 1 ]
    else
        false
    fi
}

agent_has_keys() {
    ssh-add -l >/dev/null 2>&1
}

agent_load_env() {
    . "$env" >/dev/null
}

agent_start() {
    (umask 077; ssh-agent >"$env")
    . "$env" >/dev/null
}

add_keys() {
    export SSH_ASKPASS=~/AppData/Local/scoop/shims/askpass.exe
    export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

    /dev/null | ssh-add
}

if ! agent_is_running; then
    agent_load_env
fi

# if your keys are not stored in ~/.ssh/id_rsa or ~/.ssh/id_dsa, you'll need
# to paste the proper path after ssh-add
if ! agent_is_running; then
    agent_start
    add_keys
elif ! agent_has_keys; then
    add_keys
fi

unset env

Would you be open to shimming pshazz/*/libexec/askpass.exe so that its easier to get access too?

[lukesampson]

Cool, you found askpass. Yeah I don't mind the idea of including a shim for askpass.exe with pshazz. Do you want to submit a pull request?

[bcomnes]

Sure, I can do that. You don't understand how happy this makes me :laughing:

[lukesampson]

Hahaha!

[bcomnes]

Closing for now. Maybe I don't even need pageant support.