SSH-Agent (ssh-add) on Cygwin

if you want to get rid of entering the password evry time you login to servers you should follow this post :

If you DON’T have a ~/.bash_profile (a file that gets executed every time you start cygwin):

touch ~/.bash_profile
chmod a+x ~/.bash_profile

Now that you have the file, add this to it:

SSHAGENT=/usr/bin/ssh-agent
SSHAGENTARGS="-s"
if [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" -a -x "$SSHAGENT" ]; then
 eval `$SSHAGENT $SSHAGENTARGS`
 trap "kill $SSH_AGENT_PID" 0
fi

This will start up ssh-agent for each Cygwin shell you have open. Close your Cygwin shell (if one is open) and open a new one. Now type:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
[enter your password]

That 's it..you dont have to enter password anymore albeit for this window. every time you open a new window you need to do the last step to say the ssh-add to remember the password...