keychain and ssh-agent timeout: request for enhancement

[Andrew Bezella]

hello -

i've been using keychain for some time now, and for a while i was confused by the result of trying to start a fresh ssh-agent via `keychain --timeout 600.`  i'd been expecting that ssh-agent itself would be passed the timeout via its "-t life" option, ensuring that any keys added to it share that timeout.  instead it looks like the timeout is only passed to the ssh-add invocations for keys to be immediately added.  since the syntax for the ssh-add and ssh-agent timeouts is the same, it looks like it would be a relatively minor change.

are there aspects of this suggested change that wouldn't make sense or that might have unexpected ramifications?  it would be a change in behavior, which may be a strike against it...  failing all else, perhaps the man page could be changed from describing the timeout as "conveyed to ssh-agent" to "conveyed to ssh-add?"  (i'd guess that was the source of my initial confusion)

thanks for the great utility!

andy

[Daniel Robbins]

You're welcome :) I'd suggest filing a bug at https://bugs.funtoo.org regarding this.

Best Regards,

Daniel

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[Andrew Bezella]

On Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 6:38:17 PM UTC-7, Daniel Robbins wrote:

You're welcome :) I'd suggest filing a bug at https://bugs.funtoo.org regarding this.

done: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-2598

thanks again...