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Running on Mac OS X and I switched to zsh a couple months ago & started using git quite heavily. At each initial login now I'm getting a prompt for my .ssh/id_rsa passphrase:

starting...
Enter passphrase for ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Identity added: ~/.ssh/id_dsa (path to id_dsa)

I assume I could just regenerate my rsa cert, however I was curious as to what the "best" approach would be in this case so as to not have to enter a passphrase each time now.

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Looks like a ssh-add in your zsh "profile" file? – grawity Nov 3 '11 at 0:26
Interesting, it appears that with oh-my-zsh there is a "ssh-agent.plugin.zsh". I was not aware of it running each and every time the shell starts, but apparently it is. Interestingly it only fires this ssh-add after system restarts. A real hassle when you start it with a few windows and you have to go through each one. What would be your suggestion in this regard; am I gaining an advantage by leaving this active? – ylluminate Nov 3 '11 at 3:59
I believe OS X already runs ssh-agent automatically – supposedly even integrated with Keychain – so there would be no advantage in using the zsh plugin. – grawity Nov 3 '11 at 12:14

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