trying_out_ssh_agent_plugin: activate omz ssh agent plugin

zsh/oh-my-zsh-custom/ssh-agent.zsh

@@ -1,47 +1,5 @@
-# Keep ssh-agent persisting, even when in screen
-# Have not solved the issue of being unable to connect to ssh-agent in ubuntu
-# Have not had time to investigate oh-my-zsh's own ssh-agent plugin
-
 #############
 # SSH AGENT #
 #############
 
-# Don't do for OSX, as it has it's own handling of ssh-agent
-if [ `uname` != Darwin ]; then
-
-  # Check to see if SSH Agent is already running
-  agent_pid="$(ps -ef | grep "ssh-agent" | grep -v "grep" | awk '{print($2)}')"
-
-  # If the agent is not running (pid is zero length string)
-  if [[ -z "$agent_pid" ]]; then
-    # Start up SSH Agent
-
-    # this seems to be the proper method as opposed to `exec ssh-agent bash`
-    eval "$(ssh-agent)"
-
-    # if you have a passphrase on your key file you may or may
-    # not want to add it when logging in, so comment this out
-    # if asking for the passphrase annoys you
-    #ssh-add
-
-  # If the agent is running (pid is non zero)
-  else
-    # Connect to the currently running ssh-agent
-
-    # this doesn't work because for some reason the ppid is 1 both when
-    # starting from ~/.profile and when executing as `ssh-agent bash`
-    #agent_ppid="$(ps -ef | grep "ssh-agent" | grep -v "grep" | awk '{print($3)}')"
-    agent_ppid="$(($agent_pid - 1))"
-
-    # and the actual auth socket file name is simply numerically one less than
-    # the actual process id, regardless of what `ps -ef` reports as the ppid
-    agent_sock="$(find /tmp -path "*ssh*" -type s -iname "agent.$agent_ppid")"
-
-    echo "Agent pid $agent_pid"
-    export SSH_AGENT_PID="$agent_pid"
-
-    echo "Agent sock $agent_sock"
-    export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$agent_sock"
-  fi
-fi
-
+zstyle :omz:plugins:ssh-agent agent-forwarding on

zsh/zshrc

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"
 # Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
 # Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
 # Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
-plugins=(git vi-mode)
+plugins=(git vi-mode ssh-agent)
 
 source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh