Having all your SSH keys in one agent is convenient, but if you SSH to servers with shared users, or with users who have root/sudo access, you're sharing the keys to your personal server with everyone else. Don't do that. Keep your many identities separate.

agentmgr tries to be a middle-ground, where you don't give up the convenience of having your agents forwarded, but neither do you share all your keys with the world.

• To install everything: make
• To install only bash support: make bash
• To install only fish support: make fish

If you want to install agentmgr to any other path, run make DESTDIR=/some/other/path

If you use a more traditional, non-XDG_CONFIG_HOME-conforming bash/zsh setup, source shell-support/bash/functions/agent.bash from your .{ba,z,}shrc or .profile

• Each agent's config goes into ~/.ssh/agents
• Here's a sample config, ~/.ssh/agent/personal:

; Base agent config
[agent]
; this sets default ttl for keys
;ttl = 10800

; Keys to add on spawn
[keys]
; format: keyfile = ttl
; a ttl of 0 sets it to the default above, if any
; otherwise, the keys last indefinitely
~/.ssh/id_ed25519 = 0
~/.ssh/id_ecdsa = 0
~/.ssh/id_rsa = 0