# ssh-agent cheat sheet

Start ssh agent. The reason we need eval is the fact that the ssh-agent command returns environment variables which we need in the current session for SSH to find the agent.

```bash
eval $(ssh-agent)
```

Now we add the ssh keys we want to use

```
ssh-add
```

This by default adds the ~/.ssh/id_<algorithm> keys. If you want to add others, you have to specify them explicitly

```bash
ssh-add ~/.ssh/<your-private-key>
```

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