Ssh – Detecting the remaining lifetime of an ssh-agent identity

AFAIK, there is no configuration in sshd_config or ssh_config to specify the time out for ssh-agent. From openssh source code, file ssh-agent.c:

/* removes expired keys and returns number of seconds until the next expiry */  
static time_t                                                                   
reaper(void)                                                                    
{                                                                               
    time_t deadline = 0, now = monotime();                                      
    Identity *id, *nxt;                                                         
    int version;                                                                
    Idtab *tab;                                                                 

    for (version = 1; version < 3; version++) {                                 
        tab = idtab_lookup(version);                                            
        for (id = TAILQ_FIRST(&tab->idlist); id; id = nxt) {                    
            nxt = TAILQ_NEXT(id, next);                                         
            if (id->death == 0)                                                 
                continue;                                                       
            if (now >= id->death) {                                             
                debug("expiring key '%s'", id->comment);                        
                TAILQ_REMOVE(&tab->idlist, id, next);                           
                free_identity(id);                                              
                tab->nentries--;                                                
            } else                                                              
                deadline = (deadline == 0) ? id->death :                        
                    MIN(deadline, id->death);                                   
        }                                                                       
    }                                                                           
    if (deadline == 0 || deadline <= now)                                       
        return 0;                                                               
    else                                                                        
        return (deadline - now);                                                
}

And in process_add_identity function:

process_add_identity(SocketEntry *e, int version)                               
{
.... 
if (lifetime && !death)                                                     
        death = monotime() + lifetime;
....
}

lifetime is a global variable and only change value when parsing argument:

/* Default lifetime in seconds (0 == forever) */                                
static long lifetime = 0;

int                                                                             
main(int ac, char **av)                                                         
{
.... 
    case 't':                                                               
        if ((lifetime = convtime(optarg)) == -1) {                          
            fprintf(stderr, "Invalid lifetime\n");                          
            usage();                                                        
        }
....
}

If you use Ubuntu, you can set default options for ssh-agent in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent:

STARTSSH=
SSHAGENT=/usr/bin/ssh-agent
SSHAGENTARGS="-t 1h"

if has_option use-ssh-agent; then
  if [ -x "$SSHAGENT" ] && [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] \
     && [ -z "$SSH2_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then
    STARTSSH=yes
    if [ -f /usr/bin/ssh-add1 ] && cmp -s $SSHAGENT /usr/bin/ssh-agent2; then
      # use ssh-agent2's ssh-agent1 compatibility mode
      SSHAGENTARGS=-1
    fi
  fi
fi

if [ -n "$STARTSSH" ]; then
  STARTUP="$SSHAGENT $SSHAGENTARGS ${TMPDIR:+env TMPDIR=$TMPDIR} $STARTUP"
fi

It looks like you may not have actually added the key to the agent..

If your local workstation is Linux then there's likely an agent running as part of your session you can examine it's contents with ssh-add -l

If the key hasn't been added to the agent you can also add it with ssh-add

After that when you ssh to mysite.be you should be able to see the key fingerprint listed when you run ssh-add -l