ssh-find-agent
Tool to find already running ssh-agent compatible agents (by wwalker)
zsh-ssh-agent
Ssh-agent management for zsh (by bobsoppe)
| ssh-find-agent | zsh-ssh-agent | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 454 | 24 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.9 | 0.0 | |
| 30 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ssh-find-agent
Posts with mentions or reviews of ssh-find-agent.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-10.
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The struggle with SSH key management under Linux
Jon Cairns wrote a similar article about this problem and presented a solution: A script that tries to find and reuse existing ssh-agents. There are multiple scripts with similar approaches all written in bash: ssh_find_agent, zsh-ssh-agent, and the most popular one: keychain. (And later I also discovered envoy). But being bash scripts, they are hard to read, not really fast, and make debugging a hell. I had used keychain successfully until I encountered a problem that I wasn't able to understand. Also, those tools depend heavily on ssh-agent and ssh-add instead of using the socket directly.
zsh-ssh-agent
Posts with mentions or reviews of zsh-ssh-agent.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-10.
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The struggle with SSH key management under Linux
Jon Cairns wrote a similar article about this problem and presented a solution: A script that tries to find and reuse existing ssh-agents. There are multiple scripts with similar approaches all written in bash: ssh_find_agent, zsh-ssh-agent, and the most popular one: keychain. (And later I also discovered envoy). But being bash scripts, they are hard to read, not really fast, and make debugging a hell. I had used keychain successfully until I encountered a problem that I wasn't able to understand. Also, those tools depend heavily on ssh-agent and ssh-add instead of using the socket directly.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ssh-find-agent and zsh-ssh-agent you can also consider the following projects:
keychain - keychain ssh-agent front-end
envoy - A ssh/gpg-agent wrapper leveraging cgroups and systemd/socket activation
libagentcrypt - Symmetric encryption with SSH Agent
dotfiles
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zsh-vi-mode - 💻 A better and friendly vi(vim) mode plugin for ZSH.
zsh-nvm - Zsh plugin for installing, updating and loading nvm