I created ssh key. I use it to connect with git repositories. When creating the key, I noticed the prompt that said the password should be hard to guess. Therefore, I came up with 40+ characters-long password. Now, every time I do git clone, push or anything similar, I need to input the password(which takes some time, especially when I don't get it right).
I certainly am glad that I'm enjoying security features; however, I'd prefer for ssh password to cache for 5-15 minutes(or any other arbitrary amount); sometimes I do many operations on repository in small time frame, and typing password is taking too much time. How can I do this?
Best Answer
You can do this using an SSH agent. Most desktop environments start one for you; you can add your key to it by running
If you need to start the agent, run
(this sets up a number of environment variables).
The
-toption tossh-agentwill allow you to specify the timeout. See Configuring the default timeout for the SSH agent for more details.